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Having sat on Educational Visit Coordinator meetings in Newham and listened to staff from primary and secondary schools on this subject my take is that primarily this letter is in response to the high number of parents who refuse to send their children to school on the day of any educational visits to places of worship etc. Usually this stems from a misunderstanding of what religious education actually is and a deliberate refusal to expose their children to a fair, unbiased and rational approach to other religious cultures based on principles of knowledge and understanding. I doubt anybody in Newham would ever take this approach as the fear of upsetting substantial numbers of fundamentalists from all denominations is widespread and being labelled as racist/ anti Islamic/Christian etc is so strong that nobody dares to tackle this issue.