Your editorial on the Government proposal for more grammar schools  (17 September) ends with the disparaging comment that it will disadvantage four children out of five. This will be true if the resources for new grammars are taken from the general educational provision. But if (miraculously) the Government were to put money where its policy is, then the non-grammars would not be disadvantaged in the same sense and would even benefit from an overall per-capita increase. There is, of course, every reason for cynicism about that possibility. For the half-century since comprehensive education, all governments have rearranged the educational chairs at no cost and declared the result to be an amazing success. Surely, it would be better for you to challenge the policy on the basis of adequate resourcing rather than ideology about selection. I have endured a summer of shouting and screaming on the media about winners in Rio.