WE continually hear from Messrs Donovan, Pearsall and others that Worcestershire schools are hard done by.

This is an easy target for public sympathy with the implication that our children are being hard done by.

But in all the letters they have written I have yet to read details of schools that are actually struggling for money.

On the contrary I read "good news" stories in the Evening News almost every night, the latest being about the grants to Christopher Whitehead.

Of course it would be great to be given ever more money but the pot is not bottomless.

Maybe there are other counties' schools that need more money spending on them, just as some schools in Worcester require bigger budgets than others to cater for special circumstances, for example, those that have a higher proportion of children with learning difficulties.

It is worth noting that the unspent reserves of Worcestershire Schools rose by £2m to a phenomenal £14.2m last year - hardly an indicator of financial starvation.

I have been accused of political bias. I fail to understand how politics can be kept out of such a vital issue as educational funding.

The truth is that under the Tories in the 1990s, school funding was woeful.

Under Labour, this has been reversed. I admit to fearing the return of a tax-cutting Tory government and, if this involves political bias, then so be it.

Could it be that Messrs Donovan, Pearsall and Brunner, with all their carping about the Government, have had a political agenda all along?

ANDREW WATSON,

Worcester.