Sir Peter Vardy has won a public apology and a donation to the charity of his choice from Tribune magazine, which had claimed he was a creationist who used the Academy schools he founded to foist creationist doctrine on children. I have to say I am glad at this. It seems to me a reasonable ceasefire line in a dispute that is not going to go away.
Whether or not you believe that schools should be funded in this country by anyone except the state, the fact remains that there are perfectly legal privately funded schools and no conceivable government is going to abolish them. It is almost certain that they will be funded by people who dislike and want to improve aspects of the state system, and that their motivation will be in part religious.
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