The many jobs done by headteachers | Brief letters

Lollipop duties | Art gallery snobbery | National Mills Weekend | Loss of bluebellsWith regards to Martin Wynn’s letter (2 May), my father, also a headteacher of a primary school in the 1960s, used to see the children across a busy road after school when no lollipop lady was around. When he died, a mother came up to my mother at his funeral to say he had saved her son’s life. That is the only reward for such service.Rosemary BentleyEgham, Surrey• Why all this sniffy condemnation