ael Foster is right to put his trust in local state schools as a matter of principle, but I wish I had been able to afford to send my children to fee-paying schools!
It's not just the educational standards but the opportunity to mix with other children whose parents are relatively well off and well connected which gives fee-paying school children such an advantage in our increasingly unequal world.
But if our politicians really want what's best for us - and I doubt that very much - they need only look to other EU countries like France and Germany to see how state provided health and education services of the finest quality are routinely provided for all without political fudge or dishonesty at all.
It can be done.
But Britain has to follow the USA where the gulf between the haves and have-nots is as wide as the Mississippi River.
JIM EVANS,
Worcester.
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