Must do better

For the past ten weeks my grandson has been receiving his education at home, like hundreds of other primary school children. He is fortunate enough to live in an area of Edinburgh where the children at his particular school will virtually all have access to equipment to enable them to do the work. He has received work from the school and his parents work very hard to ensure he does this and returns that which is requested. Not an easy task if you are not teachers yourselves!

They are also having to work from home in their own careers. So why in this day and age of technology does his teacher not reply to the work sent in and give him some feedback? Some teachers are great at complaining that they are misunderstood and not appreciated, but is it any wonder if this is how the children are being treated?

Why can they not use Skype, Zoom or any other of the technical ways of getting groups on line? Other countries across the world have been using this for years.

When asked about this the answer was that the teacher “did not know how to use computer programmes”. Well, may I suggest that all schools do a bit of teaching of its teaching staff and ensure that they do get this knowledge because it is likely that going to school is going to be disrupted for some time and the children still require to get lessons.

You have already had ten weeks to learn computer skills and from now until August to get it right.

So, head teachers and teaching staff, show the children and parents that you actually care about their education and are willing to learn new things to enable it to be carried out.

Maybe then the appreciation will be shown to you; but more importantly, all our children will not suffer unnecessarily.

JANE GREER Huntingtower Park

Glenrothes, Fife