HAVING read Patricia McKeever's article on the separate schools system, I was left pondering one rather confusing fact. How did she come to hold the post of Head of RE in three different schools?

Perhaps it was due to school closures? Or was her department subsumed into a faculty headed by an assistant headteacher, compelling her to seek pastures new? To have suffered such setbacks twice in one career is indeed unfortunate, if not incredible.

Could another reason for her itinerant career be failure to deliver her remit as Head of RE in more than one school? That is, the construction and delivery of appropriate RE courses for the pupils in her care, thus causing a 90% lapsation rate in those schools?

I have no doubt whatsoever that Ms McKeever can indeed vouch for a lack of genuine Catholic education.

Anne M Logue,

35 Main Road,

Castlehead, Paisley. May 30.

IN Patricia McKeever's article the word Catholic was used 42 times. Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was neither a Protestant nor a Catholic. He asked us to love one another.

Could we who are Christians - of all traditions - try to follow Christ's teaching and put ''labels'' aside? Perhaps in time bigotry would cease.

Nan Millar,

6 Ryecroft Drive, Baillieston. May 31.