I am writing in response to an article in the Hendon and Finchley Times, (‘We’ll be set apart from other schools’, February 5).
The last thing Barnet needs is yet another faith school, dividing up more of our young people along religious, cultural and even ethnic lines.
Tai Landsman and Ben Lewis state that the proposed Jewish school would be ‘all-inclusive’ – a bizarre claim given that 50 per cent of places would be reserved for Jews.
The school would also have a religious Jewish ethos, rather than one based on shared values.
Like many existing state-funded faith schools in Barnet, whether Jewish, Christian or other denomination, this proposed school would be allowed to hire, fire or refuse promotion to, any of its otherwise qualified teachers on the basis of whether they believe in a God or not, or the ‘right’ God.
Naomi Phillips
Holden Avenue, Woodside Park
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