SIR Monmouth Town Council rejected the plans for the new comprehensive school for very sensible reasons. Letters to the Beacon have also raised queries about the plans and the site. Rachel Ryder's letter in last week's edition also ignores the problems and, like the county council, wants to bulldoze the plans through against public opinion. When the building starts, the first buildings to be demolished will most probably be the pool, the gymnasium and the kitchens and dining area. Where will the school meals come from? Ms Ryder's two children already at the school will be educated on a dangerous building site. They will be pushed from pillar to post. the site will be noisy. Eventually they will be taking the most important examinations of their lives after two years of disturbed education. as for her third child, there may not be room in the new school. This new school will have a working life of about fifty years. It is disposable, like just about everything this county council builds. I am also wondering how much daylight will be seen by those at the centre of this box-like building? Rachel Ryder says we have been looking forward to our promised new school for years. I didn't know anything about a 'promised new school' until last year so I am wondering who 'we' are who had this privileged information 'for years'. Most of my education was in stone buildings built in the year dot. There was no cry for new schools that I heard. The standard of education was considered more important than bricks and cement. (Name and address supplied)