I WAS misquoted in your report "Save our school protest grows" (LET, January 26).

I did not say "Sending children to a reception class at the junior school is not the same. The quality of education is less."

The concern that I voiced to the reporter was: "If the children from nursery schools are put into a reception class attached to a junior school, then the child-to-adult ratio may be increased and that the one-to-one interaction with the younger children could be affected."

I do not feel that the quality of education is less in junior schools.

However, I do feel that nursery schools such as Rockwood can offer three and four year olds the adult time and attention that each individual child needs to develop.

I was very distressed and agitated by what was printed as a statement from me.

JOY REDMAN, Gordon Street, Worsthorne, Burnley.

We apologise for the mistake. The reporter misunderstood the point Mrs Redman was making - Editor

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