Sir, – Sheila Maher, in response to the article “Should fee-paying schools get State support?”, refuses to confront the consequences of the removal of State aid to fee-paying schools (Letters, October 25th).
She writes that fee-paying schools can never stand over the ideals of “equality, inclusion, improving literacy or ending poverty” as they are “not enshrined in their ethos”.
Nothing could be further from the truth, but I don’t need to refute this extraordinary claim.
Perhaps her assault on those schools and, by association, their students, teachers and parents is ultimately a reflection of her own narrow view that education can only exist in her version of schooling. – Yours, etc,
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ARTHUR GODSIL,
Greystones,
Co Wicklow.
