Summary
NOT for the first time does The Herald manage to emphasise the negative at the expense of the positive in an education story. Your headline, "Pupils paid to stay on failing to turn up" (June 23) , bears no relation to the story that follows: 15,200 pupils stay on and achieve targets while 5000 do not, and they find that they no longer are entitled to the money.
Maybe I see the world through rosecoloured spectacles, but that looks like something to celebrate, especially if there is a fair proportion among the 15,200 who would not have stayed on if they had not received the financial incentive. As for James DouglasHamilton's comments about value for money, does he not know that the longer people remain in education the less likely they are to commit crime and the more healthy they are likely to be? A more stable and efficient society sounds like value for money to me.See the full content of this document
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Focus On the Pupils Who Do Stay On
David Brown, 82 Castlemains Road, Milngavie.
I THINK it is...See the full content of this document
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