Critic is wrong: pupils need free computers

The vast majority of parents do want their children to be IT literate. Their future education and employment depends on it.

Contrary to his assertions, most families with children in this area don’t have a PC at home - it is estimated to be less than one in 10 families in this area. Most children don’t have internet access on phones. His allegation that children would ‘not use a PC for anything other than chat rooms’ is silly.

Parents need to be vigilant and guide internet access for their children, just as they need to guide them on safe ways to cross the road.

Paul and Janet Earl, Firshill Cres, S4

Tony Rodgers’s letter about free computers for kids and the suggested abuse of the scheme got me angry.

On what does he base this assertion that these ‘gifts’ will be abused by their receivers?

He seems to be typical of the ‘happy to think the worse of people’ types who seize any opportunity to pull down the area, its residents or any scheme intended to improve matters.

Mick Ibbotson, Piper Close, Sheffield 5

ONCE again here is another such occasion where Government cash is to be spent in the same old areas.

Firth Park - 200 computers. Bradfield - one computer. Yet another example of the more you pay in the kitty the less you benefit. This is what we have come to expect from this totally incompetent council.

Mrs PM Nutton, Church Street