IF the councillor quoted in your article (LET, May 17) about new scholars at Pleckgate High School, Blackburn, doesn't think a child from Rhodes Avenue (from where you can see the school) should go to Pleckgate and should go to another school at the other end of the town, I would assume that he could afford to pay any excess bus fares himself, out of money saved in the free car parking that the councillors enjoy.

Quite apart from the facts of feeder schools, etc., the policy that is being used is economic nonsense and it is the council tax payers who will be footing the bill.

THOMAS E MALLINSON, Oakwood Avenue, Blackburn.

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