WHAT was predictable about John Blunt's predictions (LET, January 3) was that he would soon be indulging in his favourite sport - teacher bashing.

This man knows nothing about teaching or education, but this does not stop him seizing upon any reported pronouncements remotely critical of our profession in order to launch yet another vitriolic attack on us all, under the cloak of cowardly anonymity.

Whatever did his teachers do to him to cause such loathing? Has he no feelings of gratitude or respect for any of his own teachers?

Is his own high standard of literacy not due to good teaching? Maybe he just has a good copy-editor.

KEITH ELLEL, Westwood Avenue, Rishton.

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