Private schools
Sir, — Mr Fletcher, president of 'the P.P.T.A., is quoted as saying, “The problem is the increasing financial difficulties being faced by many private schools. Integration offers these schools an opportunity to continue . . .” Mr Fletcher is wrong. The problem is the refusal of successive Governments to grant justice to parents who prefer to send their children to private schools. Those parents should be granted a tax exemption which would end the situation where they are forced to pay, via taxes, for other children’s education as well as for that of their own children. Then the “financial difficulties” of private schools would disappear. Attempts by the State to monopolise education are potentially very dangerous and it is surprising that more people are not concerned about the long-term threats to liberty which are inherent in attempts to annihilate independent schools. — Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. March 11, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 16
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