MIKE Foster's defence of the funding distribution for our county's schools was - as usual - missing one vital point.
The fact is that the counties which do so well above us on the funding table, are not just those of urban areas with non-English speaking children from deprived backgrounds, that he is so keen to mention, but also highly affluent areas.
These include counties such as Surrey (the least deprived area in the entire country), Kent, Oxfordshire, Sussex and so on.
Thirty-three out of 34 such comparable counties come above us on the funding table, and receive hundreds of pounds per child per year of government funding more than children in Worcestershire.
As there is a national teachers' pay scale and basic equipment costs the same wherever a school may be, there can be no justification whatsoever for these huge differences.
Far from representing the vast majority, as he claims, as usual Mr Foster is paying lip service to Mr Clarke rather than representing the electorate who put him in his lucrative job in the first place.
HELEN DONOVAN,
Evesham.
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