I am writing in response to your front page article "Closing School Dubbed A Slug" (The Argus, September 9).

I read with great sadness the supposed comments regarding East Brighton College of Media Arts (Comart).

What hope did it have when the very person who was appointed to "turn the school around", Dr Jill Clough, asked students with no first-hand experience of the school which animal they would most compare it to.

The school is far from dirty, smelly or stupid. It's probably one of the best-equipped in Brighton.

Living in Whitehawk, you get used to dealing with prejudice from people who only know the area by reputation.

One would hope, however, as the majority of people living here are friendly and decent, this ignorance would become a thing of the past.

Your article, however, highlighted how our children will face the same problems, the same prejudice, the same stigma of living in a so-called bad area or attending a so-called bad school.

Rather than encouraging children to think negatively of Comart and the Whitehawk area, Dr Clough's time might be better spent explaining the positive aspects.

She may as well have been paid to put children off the school. This is an insult to both the pupils who attend it and the people living in the Whitehawk area.

I would compare this attitude to dinosaurs, out-dated and better off extinct.

-Mrs J Dale, Whitehawk