Head hunt

Good God. Teachers’ representatives simply miss the point on this. They apparently say: “Teachers are clear that these national tests for P1s tell them nothing they do not already know”. But that is largely irrelevant. The purpose is primarily to record the development of all children, not just the ones a particular teacher knows.

corrigenda Yet another vote the SNP lost that they ignored the result of. We really did dodge a bullet voting No in 2014. Had we voted Yes Scotland would be the first Western country since Spain to have a dictatorship. The SNP are so undemocratic, ignoring votes – they even ignored a vote within their party two weeks ago when the party faithful voted for a Scottish currency.

Mike Lowery

Unionist parties using the children as political ammunition. P1 assessments (not tests BTW) have always been performed in a nonstandardised way by most councils but as soon as the SNP introduced a nationwide standard the Yoons start shouting about it. The Tories also conveniently forgetting that the same thing was in their last manifesto and that Tory HQ has the same plans for RUK. Hypocrites!

Dunnomuch

Can Sturgeon please be asked at this week’s FMQT ... What exactly is the point of taking a vote in Holyrood?

Proud2bscots Who would want to teach in council schools in this day and age? There is no discipline anywhere and the parents think that their wee Johnny is an angel.

Brian Stewart Bring back the good old days where if you told a parent a teacher slapped you, you’d get another slap off that parent.

La tête de bois In this day and age denominational schools like this should be a thing of the past and confined to the Dark Ages. All children from every religion should be taught together as one. Perhaps if we did, Scotland’s shame of sectarianism would die a hopefully painful death.

Starlet