Letter: Parents offered choice of inequality and racism

WITH YOUR left hand you pen an editorial that professes concern about the abandonment of free and equal access to dental treatment, warning against the re- emergence of a two-tier system. Your right hand meanwhile produces the 'Parents' Choice' supplement - practically an advertising feature which reinforces the disastrous trend towards competition between schools. Such competition only exacerbates the present national crisis of unequal educational opportunities for our children.

Julian Jacobs

Cambridge