WHEN I heard the news about all schools having to become academies in the next few years it really worried me.

In the next four years my own children face GCSEs and A-levels - their biggest challenge yet.

They go to Rednock which is not an academy. It is a comprehensive, community school whose teachers have worked really hard to raise standards with great results – in the top 25 per cent of schools in the country.

Now it will be forced to become an academy, so my concern is that instead of governors and teachers continuing to focus on ensuring all Rednock pupils do well, they will spend the next few years drowning in the bureaucracy and red tape needed to change the school's legal status.

I've written to our MP Neil Carmichael - who is chairman of the education select committee - for reassurances that this won't happen.

What our kids need is stability at school and good teachers in the classroom but I worry that instead we are going to get four years of change and uncertainty.

Doina Cornell

Dursley