Majority of pupils don’t get subjects they want
More than half of schoolchildren do not get to study all the subjects they want, a Scottish Parliament survey has revealed, with youngsters claiming they are “forced” to take classes they “hate”.
Research by the Scottish Parliament’s education committee found 56 per cent of pupils in the senior phase of secondary school were not able to take all the classes they wanted. The most common reasons given for this were timetabling clashes and the school not offering the subject a student wanted to take.
Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith raised concerns youngsters were being “denied the opportunities for learning they both need and deserve”. Parents told the committee having to take subjects they did not want to study was affecting their children’s motivation, leading to “unwillingness” to go to school.
Ms Smith said: “That speaks volumes about the narrowing choice of subjects being offered to Scotland’s pupils under this SNP Government.”