Forget the Strikes and Help Pupils Get into a Decent Job; LETTERS

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I WORK six days a week for one of the top supermarket chains, getting up at 4am to ensure customers have their newspapers. But, along with my colleagues, I'm regularly shouted at by the public, and people make remarks like: 'Oh, so you didn't get into university?' In fact, I didn't apply. I knew it wasn't the right option for me, though I wasn't sure which path to take instead. As soon as I made it known that I wasn't taking the uni route to flatter the statistics, my school basically washed its hands of me. I was cast adrift, deprived of the guidance I so sorely needed.

Last week's teachers' strike angered me: instead of throwing their toys out of the pram for the sake of …