Grammar success

There is an ominous silence echoing around the inner sanctums of the socialist dominated Wolverhampton Education Authority as it fails to trumpet the two local grammar schools' stellar performances published in the latest league tables.It must really hurt in comparison with the abysmal results of their bog standard comprehensives.

The resulting drop of 60 places in the national tables must surely be a clarion call to all hard-working parents that this old-style Labour council has got it seriously wrong with its 1970s attitudes towards education.

By clearly ignoring parents' requirements and forcing upon their children PC and social engineering policies, more and more of these already over-taxed parents are voting with their feet and opting out of these badly performing city sink schools and going into the private sector.

This continual drain away from state education means that in reality instead of helping the deprived classes, they are only driving them further down with little or no chance of escape or advancement.

The easiest solution, but the most unacceptable for socialism and its creeping dead hand of central control, is to liberate all schools from local political interference and let

them and their very capable staff, parents and governors develop and decide the school's direction and selection criteria.

C O Jones, Burnhill Green, Shropshire.