Letter: Tables turned

From Mr Harold Stone

Sir: Any one block of the schools results tables falls clearly into three general categories: selective entry, non-selective comprehensive and specials for Special Educational Needs. No one would make comparison of results between the last two.

Your correspondent Caroline Beamish (letter, 23 November) might avoid her "scepticism and irritation" were she to separate the first two, and so separate considerations of educational achievement from issues of class and affluence.

Yours faithfully,

harold Stone

Wareham,

Dorset

23 November