FOR the good of schoolchildren up and down the country, Malcolm White (LET, November 23) should drop his action against Clitheroe Royal Grammar School.

He has nothing to gain unless he is after financial compensation, which I feel sure he isn't.

If he wins his action there will be no school trips for any children, disabled or otherwise. Teachers must be able to make individual assessments of children to determine whether they can safety take them away, especially abroad, due to the great responsibility involved.

The teachers volunteer to organise trips for the good of pupils. They give up their own holiday time, and at a considerable expense to themselves, to run them.

Trips abroad in school holidays are not part of their contract and neither are they part of the school curriculum.

Mr White states the children will suffer educationally due to the cancellation of the watersports trip. This is ridiculous.

School trips abroad are a great experience for the children involved, but let us not pretend they are vital to their education. Most of the children at CRGS were not going on that trip -- at £360 it is a lot from a family budget for one child.

I think Mr White is totally blinded to reason, due to it being his son involved, perhaps an understandable reaction. However, it is time he let the teachers at CRGS get on with what they do well, which is teaching our children, instead of wasting their valuable time defending a pointless lawsuit.,

No law will every force teaches to take our children abroad against their wishes. As in this case, no one will volunteer to run the trips. Does Mr White really want to be responsible for this?

Parent of child at CRGS (name and address supplied).