IT WAS very interesting to read the reported comments made by Roger Dyson, chairman of the governors at Bicester Community College.

I notice there was no apology for the situation BCC finds itself in.

The statement said that the school was working on an agreed three-year plan.

Well, as a member of staff who was in post, pre-current headmaster and left two years after his appointment, I must ask who the plan was agreed with. Indeed, the chairman assured the staff that they intended to build on the successes already achieved when appointing the new head.

As far as I can say, that was the agreed plan, as no other was mentioned until now.

Indeed, the governors, including the chairman, had many opportunities to share the plan when approached by concerned staff, pupils, parents and others who contacted them with their concerns.

Concerns were dismissed with no attempt to explain that there was a plan at all.

To say that no governors have stepped down is to deny that a number have left recently, while Michael Waine is only the highest profile one.

If there is a lesson to be learned from this, it is that if you have a plan, then it needs to be shared with the community at large.

We have not seen the plan but I believe it is safe to say that Ofsted has seen it and has made its considered judgement, which has no doubt been challenged by the governors at BCC and dismissed.

JIM YOUNG, Blythe Place, Bicester