SNP should be ashamed of misleading class sizes policy he SNP Government has ditched its disastrous class sizes policy of 18 or fewer for P1-3.
Iain McGill, Conservative Candidate for Edinburgh North & Leith, says:
“Over
a year ago I called for the SNP to abandon something so unworkable and
detrimental. The SNP misled voters with this misguided policy. It was
nothing more than a cynical exercise in buying votes.
The
whole episode has been a massive fiasco and we have known this u-turn
was coming. In the SNP Government’s 51-page Programme for Scotland,
published three weeks ago, not a single mention is made of class sizes.
“As
a recent poll showed, smaller class sizes are nowhere near being the
priority of ordinary Scots. Parents don’t want Alex Salmond dictating
how many children should be in a class – they want headteachers and
teachers left to get on with the job teaching their children how to
read, write and count.
“This
policy will cost millions of pounds of scarce public money, funds which
would be much better spent by schools themselves rather than
politicians’ pet projects.”
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