Since I appealed to the Government, through The Argus's correspondence columns, to change its attitude regarding "faith" schools, it has been taken up nationally.

Yet the basic issue has not yet been addressed, namely that religion is a matter for the home and the appropriate institution.

It is not a matter for compulsory schooling, when it begins to border on indoctrination - apart from comparative religion, when it then becomes a genuine educational investigation.

For the Government to "force open" religious schools to some children of other faiths - or of no faith - is like trying to douse a fire after having started it in the first place.

Let us integrate our children of different faiths through our educational system, as we are trying to do with children with different "educational needs".

-R G Jenkins, Hove