AS the headteacher of a successful comprehensive high school, it was refreshing to read the comments of Miss Caroline Thompson, headmistress of Bury Grammar School for Girls, concerning the GCSE Performance Tables (Nov 26). She is entitled to be delighted with the excellent results her pupils have achieved.
Her honesty with regard to unfair comparisons between dissimilar schools made by the present Government is apposite. The Government's "league tables" attempt to treat all schools as if they were the same and have no relevance to the priority of "Education, Education, Education" for all pupils.
E. S. WILSON, King David High School, Crumpsall.
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