I can only assume the letter about “unruly” schoolboys from St Columba’s (News Shopper, May 28) was written solely for the purpose of trying to ruin the reputation of what has until now been considered a good school.

The saying “boys will be boys” does not encourages bad manners or insolence.

If the writer did witness these disgraceful incidents, then common courtesy would demand she at once take the complaint to the headteacher, giving him a chance to identify the boys and put his house in order.

You do not have a letter published if you have not given the headteacher time to find the culprits and deal with them appropriately before his school is rubbished in such a manner.

T M E Wilkes Eskdale Road Bexleyheath

THIS is for C Mustafa (Letters, June 18) who wrote in response to my letter. I feel it is you who does not know what you are talking about.

I live in the street St Columba’s school is in, so I can see it is older boys picking on younger ones.

I cannot reveal my identity because, as I have already stated, I have been assaulted by a boy from the school, been subjected to racial taunts and subjected to verbal abuse.

As to how I know the streets surrounding my son’s school are not as bad, this is because a couple of parents from my younger child’s school live in the same street as his school and have no complaints.

I would also like to point out my letter was not an attack on the Catholic community but on the things we, who live in Halcot Avenue, have to put up with.

Concerned parent Halcot Avenue Bexleyheath