Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

Budget cuts have left school leaders having to be caretakers. Photograph: Pixel-shot/Alamy

• How disgraceful (Headteachers forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after cuts in England, 28 April). When I was a secondary teacher, that job would have been delegated to a head of department.
Ken Gambles
Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

• Now we know what the Conservatives mean by “global Britain” – selling public assets to foreign owners (How the overseas owners of England’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers, 26 April).
Titus Alexander
Galashiels, Scottish Borders