SIR – The report revealing that Yorkshire has the country’s highest level of ‘mediocre and middling’ schools made depressing reading.

I find education standards generally in this country depressing enough with many youngsters leaving school barely literate, which makes Yorkshire’s position all the worse.

This does not have to be so. I know of some excellent schools that led the field in Yorkshire – Ilkley, Wath, Silverdale and Settle, to name a few.

Until discipline is universally restored in classrooms, teaching standards raised and there is serious parental support, nothing will change.

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Main Street, Wressle, Selby