I was very disappointed in your article on school admissions (The Argus, January 28). You gave a very one-sided view of the situation.

No one from the CFS committee or any party outside the Hanover/Queen's Park area apart from Cllr Kevin Allen was quoted.

The situation is indeed a difficult one. I would like to see a fair and just system of admission to secondary schools in line with the principles of equality and social justice but that does not mean disadvantaging the many in favour of a vociferous few.

What appears to have been forgotten is that the distance criterion was brought in after consultation, as some parents had been complaining officers made unreasonable decisions and also that "preference" areas changed from year to year.

To remedy this, the distance criterion was put around and agreed as a more objective criterion.

From the correspondence, emails and demonstrations, one might imagine it is only two areas of the city which have a limited choice of schools. In fact, everyone has a limited choice. In Portslade the choice is Portslade CC. In Moulsecoomb the choice is Falmer.

Parents in Queen's Park and Hanover understandably want to get their children in to what they perceive as the "best school".

The one the protestors cite had excellent GCSE results in 2005 but these were not the highest in the city, so it appears academic results are not the sole criterion.

There are three schools available to residents in these areas - Varndean and Dorothy Stringer (equidistant from Hanover and Queen's Park), and Falmer, slightly further away but on a more direct bus route.

-Juliet McCaffery, Deputy Chair Children, Families and Schools, Brighton & Hove