BBC: Head teachers should allow imams, rabbis and priests to offer religious instruction to pupils in all state schools, teachers' leaders have said.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said the move would be a way to reunite divided communities.
The NUT said parents had a right to have specific schooling in their own faith, if that was what they wanted.
But having children taught at different faith-based schools had led to community breakdown in some areas.
Offering pupils some instruction in their own faith could reduce the demand for faith schools, said NUT General Secretary Steve Sinnott. Schools Could Offer Koran Classes >>> By Hannah Goff
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