From SIMON LAWRENCE
I have some sympathy with Peter Robinson’s argument that the bias against
science discriminates against working-class children (Forum, 15 December).
He is, however, in danger of losing credibility when he claims that a high
pass rate for Greek and Latin (which only few of the most able children
take) shows that these are easy subjects. At my son’s school all those who
passed O-level Greek achieved about 10 O-levels (few failed any) and most
had A grades in O-level Mathematics and often in Additional Mathematics.
Robinson has a strong enough case without needing to produce ludicrous
examples.
Simon Lawrence Shenfield Essex
