Well you can question it but I saw it in action big-time. The pull of the faith factor for a certain type of person is very strong. I'm sure it does happen in other cases too, though, in the case of faith schools, the skulduggery looks even more sharply unchristian. Of course, these days we have grammar schools and free schools and a slackening of any idea of quotas based on ability, all in the name of "choice", one of the biggest of all the big Tory lies.