Classroom clarity

It would be a pleasure to enlighten Gill Turner( Letters ,26 August) as to where the “pejorative term” for Curriculum for Excellence (CFE) she refers to maybe heard: just spend a few weeks in most Scottish schools and you are likely to hear it. I can only assume Ms Turner is part of a school management team, as rank-and-file teachers often conceal their opinions of this curriculum from superiors.

The introduction of this socalled curriculum coincided with a decline in standards and a widening of the attainment gap, not to mention an on-going crisis in excessive workload for we education professionals.

Tests such as PI SA which expose the failure of CFE are derided by supporters of John

Swinney, as Gill Turner does by quoting an anti-pisa article in the Times Educational Supplement. Since this august publication is widely known to be infallible, she may surely rest her case in triumph.

F SCOTT Morningside Drive, Edinburgh