Religious/Faith Schools should be banned in the UK

My opponent seem to be ignoring the first part of my definition of religious schools- "that which is run by or for a religious establishment or religious community." The definition did not then say "OR any school whose religious teachings are not monitored by the state". It was to include both. Semantics aside this should be a good debate. He asked me to verify which illegality I was referring to when it came to the setting up of schools. It was Discrimination. It is illegal to bar entry on the grounds of race, but not on the grounds of religion. This is an immoral hypocrisy in modern society. He also said how private schools do not segregate, then said you can attend if you have wealth. Therefore proving segregation between wealth and no wealth. (I digress). While I appreciate the personal experiences of my opponent in his schooling, personal experience does not constitute evidence. We can all see opportunity this creates to fabricate evidence. He said he went to a Humanist school, then acted as if their non-bias religious teachings was not to do with that fact. If he went to a Catholic school, then spoke of non-bias religious teachings, that would do more to support his view. As it stands my view is supported. Thaddeus pointed out himself that some private schools do not even teach much RE. This again does nothing to support his view, my point that schools having the ability to pick and choose their own RE can have negative consequences, is not disproved here. Let us clarify this, as my opponent seems to be trying to turn this debate into a private vs state school debate. I am not against private schools, as the money raised from fees may help build good facilities, buy equipment, and possibly employ better teachers. Should religion have an influence in all that? No, of course not. This is my whole argument. My opponent gives no reason as to why we should allow religion to influence schooling, but not allow racial prejudices to do the same. I showed how, in religious state schools, the majority of the money is from the taxpayer, yet because of the irregularities in the law, the same people who are paying to build and fund the schools can be refused access on grounds of religion. Let me turn to his counter arguments. 1) Where is my opponents evidence of this? He provides none. Again he ignores my religious schools definition and concentrates on private schools (many of which are secular). I would like him to return to the theme of schools of 'religious character'. 2) This is an interesting question. My response is that it should be illegal for schools to be founded on religious grounds because it is an hypocrisy to equality and openness in education. Why should they then be banned if they already exist? Because giving religious beliefs a free ride when it comes to what they are allowed to do is plain wrong. As I keep saying- if we cannot justify a school being founded on Neo-Nazi racial beliefs, then why do we think it is justifiable to to do it on religious beliefs? 3) Religious beliefs are just that, religious beliefs. Nothing to do with education. Why does the local church have more of a right to set up a school than the local KKK? Or the local logical positivists society? All schools should be run on ground of equality and the best way to do that is to remove religious influences and to have universal monitoring. Yes there are other influences (historical, wealth etc) that could also be removed, but that is for a different debate. "If there is demand for one school they ought to not be banned outright". There is a demand for National Socialism, but that is ignored. There is demand for racial segregation, but that is ignored. Demand does not create justification. My opponent has shown my points respect in his attention to them, but he has not countered them. He hasn't justified the lack of Freedom in Choice, Segregation in admissions and social groupings, Biased and unregulated RE, Religious influences in PSHSE, the Hypocrisy in allowing religion to do all of this but not other possible groups, and finally the Rights of Children to have an equality based education over the rights of parents to indoctrinate.