Sir, - As Barbara Johnston indicated in her article, many parents are supportive of the teachers' pay claims. However, if teachers use the children that have been placed in their care as leverage in their claim against the Government, regardless of the effect it has on those children, any parental support will evaporate very quickly. Teachers need to ask themselves: Is it right to pursue this action to the bitter end regardless of the impact it has on my pupils? - Yours, etc.,
Phil Sykes, Northumberland Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.