Education, education, education, but not religious education. I must back up what Jackie Roy writes in your November 30 edition about the closure of Christ the King RC Infants' School, as a former Spelthorne Borough Council-appointed governor of the school until the Government stopped schools from having a minor local authority governor.

In the past the school requested to become a primary school and if this had been granted the main reason given for closure would not exist.

The Government document entitled Every Child Matters only applies if you do not want a religious education. We have Stanwell New Start trying to upgrade the facilities in Stanwell but Government guidelines are depriving the Catholic community of a successful school as part of its levelling-down process.

I refer to Andrew McLuskey's letter in the same issue (Governments get an F for education) as I have written about how social inclusion stops bullies from being removed from schools and is the cause of antisocial behaviour we are experiencing.

If you link the proposed 18 years increase in the school leaving age to the increase in state pension qualifying age to 68 you may think the argument for the latter is destroyed. Is the real reason to make the employment statistics more acceptable and hide a failing economy?

COUN JACK PINKERTON Stanwell North Ward