Mark Bannister once again shows great support for change to the current system of unfair admissions to secondary schools (Letters, March 8).

This time he supports a reduction in car journeys. I imagine with that in mind he is walking to his closest school.

That is, after all, what all of us want - to be able to attend our nearest school.

If people avoid their local school because they think it is not good enough, they should stand up and admit it, not hide behind important issues such as the environment.

More than 64 per cent of children from inner city areas (much higher in some postcodes) who have just received their letters did not get their choice of school and as a result will have to travel huge distances to their allocated school.

They are doing this without peer support and at a time when they are extremely vulnerable.

Some people in Brighton are trying to turn this into an issue of Queen's Park versus Fiveways.

I can assure you the residents of Fiveways never needed to worry.

They live close to some very good schools and, in fact, we want the same thing as them, access to our nearest school.

I reiterate, it was the working party which came up with the nodal system, not parents from any part of the city.

So before we worry about pollution on The Level (that was, after all, a virtual node and not a place children would actually travel to) each parent in this city should stop and ask, what is so unfair about a campaign which just wants to give children access to their closest schools?

-Anne Cross, Brighton