AS usual, upon opening the Gazette last week, I found yet more articles about Fynamore School, in Calne.

I can't be the only one who is sick and tired of reading about this school. I have no sympathy for the majority of the people who whinge constantly about parking and places at Fynamore as many of their children should be attending other schools anyway.

However much they protest otherwise, their motives for wishing their children to attend the "new" school have their roots in snobbery.

If Fynamore was built in the middle of a council estate, I'm sure there would be much less of a clamour for places.

It is not the best school in Calne any child there would receive as good an education at St Dunstan's or Priestley.

Both my children attended St Dunstan's and emerged literate and numerate. Just as importantly, they are happy; rounded and confident individuals.

They will obviously always be those pupils who fare better at one school than another but most would do just as well at St Dunstan's as at Fynamore.

The SATs results may force St Dunstan's and Priestley down the league table but common sense surely shows this is not the best way to judge a school there are so many other factors to be taken into consideration.

St Dunstan's is a lovely school where children flourish it is no accident that one of their staff was voted Teacher of the year by the Gazette in 2001.

Parents who chose to vie for places at this year's "school to be seen at" would do well to remember this and send their children to their catchment school (to which they could then walk) instead of putting everyone through all this "stress."

Priestley, St Dunstan's and Trinity schools don't have car parks either: What school does?

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