Shetland schools and education system

[Noodeyn]

Thanks, just found term dates on the back of a letter and bells brae goes back on wed, oops I thot it was deffo 2moro poor bairn wid have been stood at the bus stop waitin :0(

[stilldellin]

From Shetland News :-

EDUCATION officials are recommending that four rural primary schools in Shetland close, saying it will save the authority more than £250,000 a year and safeguard the rest of the service. **********************************

 

These are supposedly " educated " people making these decisions for implementing this madness. The transport operators must be rubbing their hands with anticipation.

[nederlander]

I can tell you for a fact that the transport operator oot wast, that would most likely to tak the bairns over to Waas and back every day will be anything close to "rubbing their hands together" if this goes ahead.

[stilldellin]

^^ Wid tink if dis goes ahead hit'll no be Waas you will be runnin to but Aid, as Waas will nae doot be goin on da neest hit list...

[Njugle]

As a measure of the level of care and forethought that is going into this cost cutting era, the Scalloway secondary bairns were recently shown around their new home at the AHS, and while the staff could not have been more friendly and helpful, there was more than a little despondency when the bairns were shown the "new social areas", which were, realistically, portacabins with benches.

[JustMe]

"Social areas"?. When I went to school our social area was the playground and in later years a big drain pipe under the railway line that was used for smoking so, on balance, I think we would have thought portacabins with benches to be a luxury.

[Njugle]

When I first went to school, children were beaten with straps or canes for errant behaviour. Times, and standards, have changed.

 

The point I was making was, of course, that Scalloway's communal areas were bright modern functional parts of the main building, not an afterthought.

[stilldellin]

Whin I guid tae schul cost of fuel/transport : nill

Noo : Megabucks....

[nederlander]

The notion of going to Eid school was thrown out by the parents, quite rightly. It'll most certainly be Waas in the medium to long term - if it goes ahead.

[JustMe]

Njugle wrote

When I first went to school, children were beaten with straps or canes for errant behaviour.

Yes indeed and did it do us any harm?. Well possibly and it is good that it does not happen any more. Meanwhile would it be fair to say that most parts of the AHS are an afterthought and adding the Scalloway pupils to the school ahead of the new build is a complete nonsense. I believe that this is something the new Scottish Government (even if it is the old one with some new faces) should look at again as a matter of urgency. And maybe something our own councillors ought to reconsider at their next meeting.

[khitajrah]

When I first went to school, children were beaten with straps or canes for errant behaviour.

 

Same here in backwoods Canada. I got the strap across my palm on a regular basis for not being able to recite my times table. I still don't know my times table.