THERE is no question Bridgwater schools are in need of capital investment to provide excellent sustainable facilities and an environment for learning that serves the needs of all of our community. However, people should be aware that the proposed Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project would achieve none of these critical aims.

Despite the hypocrisy of our Conservative MP, whose previous policies have been against and to abort the BSF programme, school employees, parents and above all, our children, are being sold a testament to mediocrity.

While some of us are principled about wanting the best facilities for future generations, the backers of the BSF project, without full consultation, are content to promote, according to the Government's Commission on Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) design assessment ratings, a school building that rates only as mediocre.

It does not even rate as good, never mind the excellent rating required to go forward.

Our future young people deserve better than this sell-out to the privatisation of education, which will not only burden future communities with unsustainable buildings, but also with unprecedented levels of debt to pay for them.

Yes, let us please have more of our students protesting on our streets, but for something worth fighting for, a highest quality public facility, not a poor quality corporate burden.

Charles Graham Stawell Bridgwater