Faith schools: Clergy criticise Church of England using school admissions to ‘artificially boost church attendance’
by Will Hazell, iNews: Exclusive: Thirty Anglicans say selective faith schools give ‘ammunition’ to critics who claim Church uses schools for ‘pew fodder’. A group of senior Anglicans have written to the Church of England urging it “to abandon admission policies that discriminate against people by faith” in its schools. They say that selecting on the basis of religion is likely to help the well-off and gives “ammunition” to critics who claim the Church uses...
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