Recent reports in The Argus (February 3 and 8) suggest all is not well in the parts of Brighton and Hove City Council entrusted to make educational decisions on behalf of our children.

For many years, children going to secondary school have been allocated places based on where they live.

This would only be fair if the city's schools were positioned equally across all neighbourhoods.

However, this is not the case and it has been made worse with the closure of Comart, leaving children from many parts of southeast Brighton disadvantaged.

After a long campaign, a group was set up by the council to review the inequalities and it appeared to come up with the commonsense suggestion that the computer used to work out the distances between homes and schools be reprogrammed to treat the schools as if they were equally spread out across the city.

This has the advantage of saving huge amounts of money - which is what the cost would be of physically moving the schools around the city.

It also gives all residents as fair a choice as possible. However, some parents, who have a wider choice of schools than most, are unhappy with this solution, which suggests they want to retain a system which gives their children an unfair advantage.

Councillors now appear to be having second thoughts and want to delay matters until a more robust system can be found.

It is vital our elected leaders have the courage of their convictions and put confidence in the decision reached by this working group, at least until a better system is found.

We should also realise that, if a school or other facility is being affected in one part of Brighton and Hove, it still affects us, even when it isn't in our own backyard.

-Ian Chisnall, Brighton