Education

Press, 21 August 1989, Page 12

Education

Sir,—Separating students of certain subjects into classes of single sexes may aid our schools to educate every student to the best potential. Removing sexual distractions and pressures from the classroom could encourage success in subjects traditional to either sex without interfering with the students socialising elsewhere in the school or within subjects where it is not helpful to separate sexes. Our schools’ responsibilities are to educate, not indoctrinate, and the students’ studies have priority over social assimilation which can easily be contrary to their interests.— Yours, etc., EUAN N. RITCHIE. August 16, 1989. Ban on rider

Sir,— The “Ban on blind riders angers horseman” headline (August 14) left me speechless and angry. Ray Morris has made saddles of renown for many years; they sell all over the country. If this man is capable of such fine art and of making a living for himself, why should he be subjected to such “blind injustice” as to be banned from what he does best? As a psychiatric nurse looking for “normalisation” and rehabilitation of people within the community, I find this kind of petty treatment appaling.— Yours, etc.,

PAT LUDEMANN, August 14, 1989.