The Editor, Sir:

I would like to support the view of Louis A Moyston in his letter to your paper dated May 31 concerning the role of the private sector in education.

A private sector-driven education system will succeed in marginalising more and more students. The private sector by its very nature takes the route of least resistance. The private school is interested in building its reputation and image. The easiest way to do this is to corner the brightest students and ensure impressive results.

This is, in fact, what the traditional high schools have been allowed to do for generations, which has led to the 'archway' system we now have, in which so many children are exiled from schools in their own communities because their GSAT score is below the 'cut off' point for the schools there. And didn't these schools all start as private schools?

I am, etc.,

R. HOWARD THOMPSON

roi-anne@hotmail.com

Rockton Waltham, Mandeville

Via Go-Jamaica