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It is well documented that many state-funded “faith schools” use their legal privileges to have highly selective admissions criteria, discriminating against parents and children, which segregates communities along religious, socioeconomic and often ethnic grounds. Many also bar thousands of suitable teachers from their schools because they do not follow the school’s religion (or don’t behave in their personal lives according to the school’s wishes). Becoming religious academies will not take away these kinds of privileges. Concerns lie in the fact that a faith school becomes a academy it no longer needs to follow the national curriculum and concerns are raised over how the curriculum is taught in line with the sponsors wishes.