SIR — Resulting from the many complaints after the GCSE results were published, West Somerset College governors issued a letter dated August 27 to the parents of all students. Unfortunately, the letter includes statements that need to be challenged as they appear to be at variance with the facts. Fallacy number one - the governors' statement "in the light of the disappointing 2012 results" implies how poor the college was when the new principal took over. However the Ofsted section of their own website states: "Ofsted said that our students achieve well and they make good progress. We were graded as a "good" college by Ofsted in June 2012." The governors continue "When we appointed the current principal in the summer of 2012 we made her fully aware of the scale of the challenge that she faced to improve standards that had been stagnating or had even declined." So the Governors have turned a "good" school with good results according to Ofsted in June 2012 into a "declining" school at precisely the same time. How can this be? Fallacy number two - in the letter, the governors state: "We stressed the importance of closer working relationships with partner schools as one of the keys to the improvement that we sought. What we did not foresee, and so could not prepare her for, was the additional challenge of seeing off external attempts to destabilise relationships within the West Somerset family of schools." Not so. It is a matter of public record that the college initiated the instability and that common sense was only prevailed upon the college by the united efforts of the schools so unfairly criticised. People in public office are expected to be above reproach. I challenge the governors to explain how these errors crept in to a public statement as the chairman has refused to discuss them with me. Jim Butterworth, Grove Road, Blue Anchor.