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The league tables for Scottish schools have just been published. I realise that league tables are a blunt instrument for measuring performance, but I thought I’d have a peek at how my old school, All Saints in Glasgow, was doing.

The results depressed me, showing just how bad the exam results were compared to the city’s norm. Then I looked at the results for the private schools in Glasgow, and I stopped being depressed and started being furious instead.

Leaving aside the morality of private education, the results demonstrate just what can be achieved by throwing money at education.
2 out of 3 pupils getting five or more highers (the Scottish A Level) against 1 in 20
97% of pupils going on to university against an average of 32% or worse.
More than half of the pupils at my old school are poor enough to qualify fro free school meals – how many of their children will end up the same?

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On a different note, you need to check out this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhionnach/20861.html.

Unless you are already reading my f-list on a regular basis, in which case I say to you, get a life.

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I'll give it a thought,, but I am a bit of a Byronic outsider in Glasgow Faandom.