Despair over school funding and education system in Britain

Bridget James is despondent about the inequality among institutions, Tony Pitman holds up Germany as a model and a teacher wishing to remain anonymous reveals the Orwellian world of multi-academy trusts. It is difficult not to feel anything but despair when reading about the plight of our schools ( Fewer teachers but more pupils, theguardian.com, 27 June). My three children attend a small primary school in Norfolk, a county where in the last week a wealthy and privileged independent school, Gres