LETTER: Classy pay-offs

From Mr D. J. Carr

Sir: I am sure that the technique needed to remove poor teachers from the classroom is obvious. Pay them off in the same way that poor businessmen get paid off ("Boss in QE2 fiasco gets pounds 407,000 pay-off", 31 January). Problem solved at a stroke. But mind you don't get trampled in the stampede.

Yours sincerely,

Derek J. Carr

Bristol

1 February