'm quite happy to think that you have now divorced good schooling from catholicity. Reading your posts over the last few days, that hasn't really come across.

I think that is probably because we have been talking a lot about faith schools that are perceived as good. If that gave the impression I thought only faith schools could be good it was unintentional. That is not something I have just worked out in the pat few days! It reminds me of the old joke about the mother who gives her son two ties for Christmas. He dutifully comes downstairs wearing one to be asked "And what's wrong with the other one?" Addressing one, be it tie or type of school, doesn't really say anything about the other.