“Starred grades for infants” (TES, March 1) sends a chill down the spine. Winners require losers and no child of seven deserves to be considered a loser.
Nikos Kazantzakis, in Zorba the Greek, wrote that the greatest weight on his conscience was trying to hasten the hatching of a butterfly from a cocoon. It emerged with crumpled wings and couldn’t fly. What are we doing to children?
Liz Byrne
Letchworth Lane
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
