Letter to the editor: I was saddened by your decision to publish your front page article, which is unfair, misleading and provocative (Head must go?, January 21).

I do not know the poor woman Katherine Kerner, but have no reason to believe she is anything other than a dedicated primary teacher and head who has given her life to educating our children and had to face absolute hell through no fault of her own.

Life for her must already be dreadful. Her career is in ruins through no fault of her own and her marriage destroyed.

How on earth can you justify adding to her misery and selecting the headline you elected to use and to quote the bigoted opinions quoted in your article without any evidence that she has done anything wrong?

Those parents calling for her to go should think very carefully about how they would feel if their partner was “found out”.

They should also reflect on the fact that she has given her life to educating their children.

I am sure that she was not a willing third party supporting his actions. I trust that Greenwich Council will view her case with sympathy and look to the evidence before condemning her out of hand.

This was “cheap” journalism at best. I expect you will elect not to publish this letter, as it is critical and not the usual sycophantic drivel. So be it if you don’t, sadly such a decision will reflect the falling standards of editorship today.

ANDREW SLATER, Address supplied