Sir,-Those who debate religious schools in your columns seem to discuss two very different models of a Christian school. I am not competent to write about schools of other faiths, but there may be a similar clash of models there. The exclusive model is that of a school which indoctrinates children with a culture in which members of its particular church are privileged. The children are led to believe that outsiders are to be pitied and shunned. Contact might contaminate the superiority of the children's beliefs and conduct. This model causes sectarian and religious apartheid and strife. The inclusive model on the other hand is that of a school following Jesus. Jesus, God the Son, died on the cross and rose again to redeem the sins of all human beings. God loves all human beings so much that he takes on the humiliation and suffering of the cross. God in fact is love, and wants us to love all people, including our enemies The school in this model holds and teaches that it has the best available understanding of what Jesus taught. In the inclusive model others may have a less good understanding. Yet the school neither values nor loves those others, or non-Christians any less than members of its own church. With your correspondent Monica O'Sullivan and no doubt with many other readers, I strongly believe in the need for schools of the inclusive model. Those schools, we believe, produce better citizens and contribute more to happy communities than those of the exclusive model or those that do not teach about Jesus and his love and forgiveness. Yet we do not love those others any less.

-Alfred Kenyon, Atherton Road, Barnes.