CHILDREN have always scrawled derogatory remarks on school walls etc.

I remember 'Proddy Dogs' was a favourite slogan on Canon Slade walls.Today we see everything from 'Lisa is Fit' to 'Gas is a puff' (and worse).

For heaven's sake let us get things in proportion. No wonder most schools did not respond to this latest diktat. I should think that they have far more serious and worrying things to concern themselves with -- and so should Ms Blenkinsop.

The state of the education system in this town should be receiving her undivided attention, unless this is a ploy to divert attention from the failure of her department in, for example, Deane School, which has, incidentally, a high ethnic element.

It is not the race problem that is the trouble there, so perhaps she could turn her attention to these serious issues.

J D Lister

Roseacre Close

Bolton