DEAR EDITOR - I'm not a person who feels it necessary to write and express my opinion in public very often, however as a pupil in the sixth form at North Bromsgrove High School, I feel obliged to voice my concerns as regards the wholly undeserved, damning Ofsted report.

Studying two maths A-Levels, French and geography, I feel well placed to remark upon, among many aspects of the school, the quality of teaching. The report singled out mathematics teaching as a principal weakness. This could not be further from the truth. I am time tabled nine hours a week, during which I am challenged by learning and understanding the topics presented to me by teachers who are prepared fully for the lesson. Furthermore, two grade A's for myself alone do not arise from "unsatisfactory teaching". The report mentions a lack of good teaching overall, which I simply do not associate with my school.

Another point I feel strongly about lies with the leadership of the school. While I can't comment on the financial situation, I do feel that recent changes, in that a completely new set of deputies and head have arrived in the last year, with the head only arriving three weeks prior to the inspection, have led to unfortunate timing for the inspection.

My final point is the exclusion rate. Speaking from my experiences in the lower school, I know how annoying a disruptive pupil can be. However, at North Bromsgrove High School the facilities provided for dealing with such young adults by the authorities, are not adequate. A special behavioural unit is not present and few isolation areas exist. So what else can be done for the sake of the vast majority of pupils, than to move these pupils on? The report I read isn't one of North Bromsgrove High School. It's somewhere else I'm sure and I hope that the parents of prospective pupils will visit the school in order to judge it - rather than simply accepting the report as truthful - which it is far from.

Peter Ross, aged 17,

Bournheath, Bromsgrove.