PAUL Saunders (You Say, Tuesday, July 15) attributes to me words I did not use and an interpretation I did not imply.
Whether Mr Saunders likes it or not, the vacant site of Christopher Whitehead School is perceived as an area of potential development not only by Tesco but by other enterprises.
Planning permission isn't necessarily a pre-requisite of possession.
If the education authority wishes to go ahead and sell the school, and with the proceeds build another outside the city boundary, that's its prerogative - and it isn't a matter involving the city council, hence the futility of the present protest.
Of course, city councillors might side with protesters, but this involvement only symbolises a desire to please the electorate with a view to re-election.
The tragedy of all this is that while grown adults squabble, the school, its staff and its pupils suffer delays and uncertainties that are bound to be detrimental.
Let the Education Authority take firm and decisive action in the best interests of children from all parts of the school's catchment area.
JOHN HINTON,
Worcester.
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