What does the faith school shake-up mean for Anglicans?

Why do faith schools excite such passions? Obviously people care a lot about religion, and education, but there’s something else at work too. Schools are microcultures, bubbles, little versions of society, in which the secularism of our culture can be shut out, defied. It sounds like a strange exaggeration, but if a religion has its own schools, it has a small but vital link to the old era of its cultural dominance. 

Is this why Roman Catholics like Melanie McDonagh are so happy with the government’s decision to allow new faith schools to have a fully religious selection process? The shake-up overturns the current rule, that a new faith school can only select half of its pupils on religious grounds, meaning that a lot of agnostic locals will be admitted, whose parents’ attitudes will weaken the school’s religious character.