Schools in a daze

It seems the old adage that your school days are the happiest of your life no longer applies. My granddaughter, who’s six, came home at the beginning of the Easter break with not one but two SATs papers of 15 and 11 pages. I was completely baffled by them, so how is a child of six supposed to work them out?

The fault is with the curriculum. The pressure on older pupils is bad enough, but to put it on infants is disgusting. Pat Naisbitt Redcar, Cleveland

With the publicity surrounding the environmental damage done by plastic, the trend to release balloons at every occasion really annoys me. It’s just another example of plastic waste. P Wakfield Swadlincote, Derbys

Stores closing, pubs closing, an increase in homelessness, children going hungry, promises broken, council tax going up. In fact, the only thing going down is the amount of tax paid by the rich.

How anyone can vote Conservative with a clear conscience is beyond me.

The are heartless and pick on those already vulnerable. The ‘Great’ has really gone out of this country. M A Yaxley, Plymouth