Herald on Sunday letters: We should bite the bullet and insist that pupils repeat the year they have missed out on
Herald on Sunday letters: We should bite the bullet and insist that pupils repeat the year they have missed out on WHY don t the various governments in the UK address the major educational deficit created by the curse of Covid over the last year? Currently their solution to this problem seems to centre round piecemeal and patchwork quilt approaches. They are going to offer extra tutoring to repair the gaps left in the education of the various cohorts, all of which have been seriously and adversely affected by the pandemic over the last year. That will be procured through extra funding, lengthening the school day and curtailing the school holidays. Those are the ideas currently circulating as the way to overcome the disadvantages imposed upon the student populations throughout the UK.
CONSIDERING that it is the foundation document of the United Kingdom, there is a vast amount of ignorance about Scotland’s Act of Union which brought about the Union on May 1, 1707. I seriously doubt if any more than, say, 2% of the Scottish population have read all of the Act of Union as passed by the Scottish Parliament on January 16, 1707, by 110 votes to 67. So today and next week I am devoting this column to that Scottish Act of treachery and self-interest. I am not writing about how the Act came about as I have written about that process before, but about the Act itself and what it means for those of us who believe in Scotland regaining its independence – not winning independence but taking it back, which is why my personal slogan is “regain the nation”.
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The term “Cancel Culture” – the practice of collectively blocking someone (usually a public figure) on social media or other venues because of a comment or action – has been in the news lately. Some say it’s the natural consequence of dealing with abhorrent behavior, while others think it suppresses speech and has a chilling effect on the free exchange of ideas. In fact, Cancel Culture is actually new name for an old practice social ostracism.
When Americans have wanted to stop others’ objectionable activities, and didn’t have the law or the sufficient funding on their side, they have resorted to blaming, shaming, and shunning. They have blackened the character of perceived offenders. They have refused them service in stores. They have prevented them from moving into certain neighborhoods. And they have organized boycotts of businesses owned by the opposition.