Sad reading for those who are in Scotland

[Arkadia]

I have just come across this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39856284

There is a similar article from last year regarding maths (and perhaps I find that one even MORE disconcerting).
Without getting too political, considering that

1. The SNP has been in power for the last 11 years (from memory)
2. the next Scottish parliament elections are due in 2021
3. The political discourse (if you can call it that) is only about the independence referendum,

it is unlikely that things will improve a great deal in the near to medium future.
Sad reading indeed!!

Some voters are VERY concerned about this. However there are some people who are totally taken in by the SNP PR machine and will blame everyone else but the SNP for these falling standards. They will say the figures are wrong, that it's not as bad as England/Wales, that it's the Conservatives fault, that the SNP's hands are tied by the UK government's funding settlement.

This is what happens when you have a Scottish government hell bent on independence at all costs. They take their eye off the day job and fail our children.

Did you not see the results of the local elections bojo?

A lot of voters are very pissed off with the SNP and their neglect of education and other areas in their pursuit of separation from the UK.

We are trying!! Hopefully the scales will fall from the eyes of others eventually and they'll be able to see more clearly the mess the SNP are making.

On the CfE, what was there before and in what way is it different from the CfE that we all enjoy these days?

Before CfE we had 5-14. It was extremely detailed. Huge workbooks basically dictated everything in all subjects from 5-14! Children would sit tests at the end of each level (for example, Level A was for P2 and so on).

However 5-14 was a totally different time. We never had the number of EAL children we have now. Children with ASNs went to special schools. Autism and ADHD were practically unheard of. Behaviour units were still open and exclusion was a real possibility. Although anecdote doesn't equal data and I may have rose-tinted glasses on, class sizes were also smaller and there were more TAs.