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Published: 9 November 2007

The girls are nothing new

I WRITE in response to your piece “Suggs a teacher? It’s Madness!” of October 19.
Like Suggs of Madness, I was a former pupil at Quintin Kynaston. He is right to say that it was full of boys in his time but Jo Shuter is wrong to claim credit for bringing girls to the school. It was when Peter Mitchell was head of the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s that we had the first intake of girls. I was in that first year of mixed-sex intake that changed the fortunes of the school, along with getting rid of the uniform.
I don’t think it’s right that people take credit for something that they did not achieve.
Murad Qureshi
London Assembly Member

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
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