Ian Chisnall's letter calling for Brighton and Hove councillors to implement the nodal system for secondary school admissions is something I agree with.

Alas, I fear he, I and other likeminded souls are living in cloudcuckoo land to think this will happen. It will not.

Despite the children, families and schools committee (CFSC) being instructed by other councillors to think again about not implementing it, I don't doubt that when the CFSC councillors meet on February 21, they will ratify their original decision to keep things as they are.

In doing so, they will, yet again, disenfranchise a significant minority of the city from choosing a secondary school. In those areas, current Year 5 pupils will be as stuffed as present Year 6 and present Year 7 pupils were.

The areas of the city which are disenfranchised are: East Brighton, Queen's Park, Hanover & Elm Grove, part of St Peter's and North Laine, Regency, Brunswick & Adelaide, part of Goldsmid and part of Central Hove.

For anyone in any of these areas who wishes to have some say over which secondary school their child attends, the only advice I can give is to live somewhere else.

For those in social housing, who have no choice over where they live, I don't know what to suggest. Those in the privately-rented sector are in exactly the same position.

Indeed, even owner/occupiers may not have the financial wherewithall to be able to move.

Perhaps they would like to ask those members of political parties, which claim to represent their interests, why this is the case?

Why should some have a choice of two or more secondary schools and some have none?

Those with no choice over where they live will continue to have no choice over which secondary schools their children attend.

Had the Green Party and the Labour Party pulled together, they could have changed things. But they didn't. With local elections in May 2007, I suggest voters remember them as they have been remembered.

-Lynne Nicholls, Brighton