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Inverted snobbery
• AS an example of inverted snobbery, let alone near-slanderous assertion on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, Alex Landin’s letter (Private schools parents are living in cloud-cuckoo land, November 19) takes some beating.
It is his attitude to education that puts many people off state schools: intolerant, dogmatic, snobbish and vain. The cloud-cuckoo land he writes of is a place in which parents lucky enough to be able to afford it give the best education to their children that they can. For many it is not easy. It can be a struggle, it can be selfless, it can require sacrifice. And their financial contributions to the state system are no less than anyone else’s. Mr Landin’s letter is unkind, unimaginative and unhelpful. The answer to the problem is very simple: Improve the schools and the people will come.
Wynn Wheldon
West End Lane, NW6
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