COUNCILLOR Richard Bird slates Helen Donovan for her criticism of the poor educational funding Worcestershire receives.

I can only assume that he does not teach in this county because he'd be the only teacher here who appears by his comments to be happy with the current funding arrangements.

What Mrs Donovan has been saying is that our schools need to be funded fairly and resourced so we are able to implement any new schemes as well as providing a decent quality of education.

He must be the only politician in Worcestershire who is ambivalent to the poor educational funding this county receives.

MARK BRUNNER,

Redditch.