Private schools can help social mobility | Letters

I was interested to read Tim Lott’s article, delightfully direct in its title (Why I want to see all private schools abolished, 21 April). Although I am actually head of one of those vilified institutions, the piece contained several points with which I would concur, not least an implicit belief in meritocracy as the way forward. However, the part of his argument with which I take most issue is the suggestion that private schools hinder social mobility.