Sir – I am sure many of your readers with an interest in education will be as saddened as I am to see The Oxford Times uncritically publicising one parent’s campaign against the headteacher of Rose Hill Primary School (School threat to sue mother over criticism, March 4).

Four years ago, when Sue Mortimer came to Rose Hill, she took on one of the most challenging primary headships in the County, and through her energy, vision, immensely hard work and (in Ofsted's words) outstanding leadership she has brought about huge improvements in the school's performance, to the great benefit of the children of Rose Hill.

She is the first to acknowledge that more remains to be done before teaching is of a uniformly high standard and our children's attainment is as high as it needs to be, but the school would not be where it is today were it not for her determination and sense of mission. Such transformations are rarely acknowledged in your pages.

In the letter, Ali Akkas (chairman of governors) and I wrote to Mrs Barson we indicated we would be happy to meet her and discuss her complaints face to face (you see fit to mention only the county solicitor's warning that it also contained). That invitation remains open, but has sadly been ignored.

The Oxford Times does itself no credit in propagating the Oxford Mail’s one-sided perspective on Mrs Barson's campaign, to which Ali Akkas and I have so far been denied right of reply via the letters page.

I trust you will allow me to restore some balance through publication of this letter.

Robin Gill, Vice-chairman of governors, Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford

If our story last week was one-sided it was because the head, the county council and the governors refused to comment on it — Ed