Exam worry

Scottish pupils may have to wait until March to find out whether they will have to sit formal exams this year, the education secretary has admitted. Critics warned that March was too late for both pupils and teachers to prepare.

I'm a teacher with a daughter who is due to sit five Highers in the springtime, but what are those who are criticising actually wanting? This story makes out that it's the children of Scotland who are suffering, and ignores that this is a worldwide problem that is affecting every single country. To suggest that decisions are made right now is nonsense. Only a few weeks ago no-one had ever heard of Omicron and now we have schools and indeed businesses across the land unable to function properly due to staff absence and people off sick. This is a worldwide issue. It's not the fault of the SNP as the Tories and Labou would have you believe.

Michael Purves As parent l saw my son, who was on track to get

Bs, ending up getting Cs and Ds due to no teaching during lockdowns, losing confidence in his schooling and himself. My kids were just issued with work sheets and told to get on with it. No explanation (he was one of the few students to do the work). It is a disgrace what schoolkids went through. Classes could have been done over Teams – many places of work had to adapt to and do this in a matter of a few days. Then to be told there were no exams only to be hit with exams a few weeks after. I saw his confidence destroyed and the struggle he had with school. I paid for tuition to try to replace what he should have been getting in class. Students were not taught. They were a tick-box exercise by the education system even

Sarah Ferguson We cannot keep putting our young people through this trauma.

Robert Mcneill Why can you sit on a plane with strangers but you can’t

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