SIR – I was appalled to read the recommendation of the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life to abolish acts of worship in school assemblies.
As chairman of the National Curriculum Council from 1990 to 1992, I emphasised the spiritual and moral dimensions of the curriculum and the importance of religious education (covering Christianity and all other major religions).
In recent years I have been chairman of governors at Sir John Cass and Redcoat Church of England secondary school in Tower Hamlets, London. This large maintained school has a Church of England foundation and 90 per cent Muslim pupils. None of the pupils opt out of religious education or the broadly Christian daily act of worship.
The school is a role model, for other schools but also for society in properly presenting British values.
To recommend abolishing all of this demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of an important component of British society today.
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David Pascall
London N6
London N6
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