Calvin Robinson meeting former Education Secretary Michael Gove

• IT did not surprise me that the likes of the Mail, Telegraph and Sun wrote uncritical pieces reporting on Calvin Robinson’s sweeping claim that schools are “brainwashing” or “grooming” pupils (Face of teacher jobs drive rails at ‘lefty bias’ in schools, July 13).

I doubt if most young people in Camden will agree with him that they only voted against Brexit because they’d been brainwashed!

I am worried though when Calvin Robinson writes (on the right-wing Conservative Way Forward site) that “Singing the national anthem and flying the Union Flag at school should be a daily routine”. I suspect many will find this a bit overdone.

I went to a comprehensive in the 1970s and I neither remember singing the national anthem much, nor do I consider that not singing it did me any harm. Some moderation might be in order.

Yes, some pride in country and culture, but surely schools should also be emphasising everything that brings us together internationally on this small planet.

When he says forcefully “Let’s put British values back into British schools”, I do wonder if we have quite the same understanding of those values.

CLLR ANDREW MARSHALL
Independent, Swiss Cottage ward