Iranian air crash

their decency as employers.

Consider the impact on the image of dairying. Negative connotations are made about the road you farm on, the district you farm in, the region you live in, all because of a rotten apple in your midst.

Fix it, now. Exposure is the catalyst for change. Provide data, drop a note or email to your local MP.

To the Minister of Labour, request an investigation. The net effect will result in a dent in the dodgy employer’s bottom line, his exposure in the media via the court and Department of Labour process will impact with his inability to employ staff. PAUL EVANS-MCLEOD Hamilton Your reports (May 22) on the death of Abdelbaset al-megrahi in Libya mentioned the scepticism about his conviction over the bombing of the Panam flight at Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988, in which 270 people were killed.

In summarising the possible causes of this tragedy, you would have achieved better balance had you reminded readers of the likely root cause.

Five months earlier in July 1988, a United States warship destroyed a civilian Iranian Airbus on a regular commercial flight between Iran and Dubai, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board.

It’s not rocket science to appreciate that the attack on the Panam flight was almost certainly made in retaliation.

The anguish suffered by the families of those lost in both flights is, presumably, similar.

I have seen and heard much about those who died on the Panam flight, but nothing about those on the Iran Air flight. Why? DAVID COY Hamilton what has been accepted in times past. Church and state have condemned the very few who bucked the system and spent their lives challenging the status quo or thinking outside the square.

Education and teaching do need revolutionary review and revision.

Much of what is currently considered important needs careful examination as to its lasting worth for citizens, but this should happen without pre-judged constraints and conditions.

Class sizes, facilities provided for learning, teacher education, schools as institutions, parenting responsibilities and duties to their children.

The curriculum itself and what it embraces as fundamental or just desirable.

Modern technology, religion and spiritual aspects and thinking, science, maths and languages – all these and many more factors need to be examined.

It is conceivable that much senior education could be best taught by remote methods using computer and other modern technologies.

Using the world’s best teachers, scientists, etc, to teach programmes for the masses may be designed and taught via television and computer, etc, assessments being selfadministered or by peer-group activities.

The economic savings may well be huge. BARRY ASHBY Raglan