Your headline 'Unfit for Children' (Oxford Mail, September 5) highlighted the scandal of the county's mobile classrooms.

The county's education department should be ashamed of themselves for allowing children to be taught in such miserable conditions as they sit in their plush offices.

We live in a strange world where things that are much needed are never in the right place.

Recently, school buildings of sound construction, located off Cornwallis Road, Cowley, were demolished to make way for a housing development. On the cards, at the present moment, another complex of school buildings off Iffley Turn are scheduled to be demolished for more housing.

These valuable sites will be lost forever and the developers will no doubt make a tidy profit, all at the expense of future generations of children.

It has now become a customary feature to see planning applications that have been submitted announcing contributions that the developer will be prepared to make for the welfare of the community.

Would it not have been better if the monies were used to replace mobile classrooms of schools within the vicinity or upgrade dilapidated buildings?

This would be more advantageous to the community and county as a whole, instead of offering contributions to projects of limited interest that benefit a few.

When will our planning officers and councillors ever learn? Vim Rodrigo, Rivermead Road, Rose Hill, Oxford