The statement is entirely consistent with insistence on religious freedom, too. The school--which is compulsory--has no right to determine that children must violate rules of their religion.

The school has no opinion on the religion of its students. It does not recognise, acklowledge or make concessions to anyone's religion, and is therefore incapable of determining that children must violate rules of their religion. That is religious neutrality.

The statement is certainly consistent with religious freedom, but goes far beyond it into religious privilege, by its insistence on the idea that in any conflict between the rules of the school and the rules of religion, religion must prevail.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}