LIKE Phil Hinton (Evening News, Friday, October 29) I have resisted the temptation to jump in on the Christopher Whitehead saga, principally because I live on the other side of the river (not the "pond" as does Mr Hinton).
His parallel with educational purchases in Florida is to my mind quite irrelevant, as also are the arguments, so-called educational, put by the local "move the site" players.
Surely a school revamped by the local council, helped by a supporting local education committee and professionally advised by a supportive Chief Education Officer could at least match one built by the Tesco supermarket chain.
Pupils present during the re-vamp will be affected of course, but we hear from the Elgar High School that this can be lived with, and the disadvantage would be short term.
Additional traffic
What would not be short term is the misery all the additional traffic - large Tesco trucks - would bring to an already overcrowded St John's road network.
Then there are the additional car journeys transporting pupils who presently walk to school.
Parents everywhere in the city, most recently St George's Primary, complain bitterly how inconvenient and indeed dangerous traffic makes their journey to school - and here we have people in responsible positions advocating that we make this even worse.
No, Mr Hinton. The Christopher Whitehead argument is not an educational one entirely - it is an environmental one and I applaud the locals of St John's who have stuck to their guns to ensure that democracy can still work.
N R HUMPHRIES,
Worcester.
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