SCOTSMAN.COM VIEW

Education spending in Scotland has slumped by more than £1,000 per pupil in secondary schools, says research

SNP answer = Blame the Tory party

– The Questions

Labour Answer = Blame the SNP. School spending is controlled by local authorities. Most are Labour controlled. Local authorities elected not to invest, then blame the SNP. That is why the SNP are now bypassing the local authorities, which are mostly full of useless second-rate jobsworths

– Mrs Duffy Voted Brexit

Mrs D, why did Sturgeon say judge me on Education if she is not in charge?

– Proud2bescots If the answer was to chuck £120m at the problem, why have they waited 10 years?

– Yoker Yodeller

The answer to fixing the education system is NOT to keep throwing more money at it. Schools have facilities these days that children of 20+ years ago could only dream of. We need to get back to basics. How, in this day and age, can children leave primary school without basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills? If you can’t get that right then you can’t get anything right.

– Ohdearyme