SIR – Keith Thomson (Letters, November 19) says he doesn’t often touch on educational matters. Just as well if his letter is anything to go by.

Of course some schools are below and some above average but, surely, Bradford does not want to be in the former group, and one has a right to criticise it for being so much below. Even a maths teacher should be aware of that.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley