Education cuts will cost us all

Madam, – I’m not losing sleep over parking charges or garden waste collection charges or any of the other ridiculous additional payments that we may soon be making to our local councils.

But like many other proud Scots, I take exception to our Scottish Government depleting what we as a nation have built up in the past – our desire to have a good, thorough education.

Many teachers who have had a lifetime

interest in a subject and have risen to be a head of a department are now to be either moved to lesser duties (albeit with a three-year “golden handshake” ) or are to be given authority over several different subjects: some of those might include topics in which they have no genuine interest.

Such amalgamations are nonsense.

I am given to understand that one case currently exists in a secondary school where a principal teacher of physical education is also responsible for overseeing the work of

the home economics department.

Might we soon see the woodwork department of a school being placed under the control of an enthusiastic teacher of music all because our SNP Government and local council can’t get the necessary funds together because they’ve frittered them away on less important, so-called “priorities”?

Scotland’s education is being systematically reduced to a pathetic shambles by the very government we elected. Archibald A Lawrie. Church Wynd, Kingskettle.