By cuckooshoe
In the Scotsman 31 January 2009:
TEN thousand Scots schoolchildren are being educated in crumbling and condemned state schools that will not be rebuilt for many years because of chronic cash shortages.
As you can see from these two paragraphs, even then the (minority) SNP Scottish Government made the right call –
Major councils and teaching unions laid the blame for the crisis at the door of the Nationalist government, claiming its dogmatic refusal to accept private finance was consigning a generation of Scots children to miserable schooldays and sub-standard education.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “The Scottish Futures Trust is already supporting infrastructure investment and will be used in the commissioning of a new school project in the spring. Local authorities are also able to build schools through traditional funding methods. In 2008, more than 30,000 pupils have swapped sub-standard classrooms for modern ones and over the lifetime of this parliament we will see that total rise to at least 100,000.””
https://www.scotsman.com/news/scandal-of-scotlands-crumbling-schools-2472468
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Well done SNP
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2 yrs into its first ever term of government the SNP minority government is being blamed for the crumbling schools estate which took decades of neglect and mismanagement to create.
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This is not a construction problem, RAAC met the required specification when the buildings were first opened, it appears that the problem is most likely to be caused by water leaking into the the RAAC, probably due this probably due to inadequate maintenance caused by lack of government funding during a decade of austerity.
With inflation predicted to have a “blip” in September and Grant Shapps appointed as defence supremo just another diversion to take people’s attention off the dire state of the UK economy, defence and the return of parliament – for another year or so of Tory mismanagement.
UK Governments promising unlimited funds (but doesn’t say where they are coming from) to rectify a problem to deal with a situation that the experts say should be thoroughly checked out but is .
The entire media (forgetting about how long and who is paying for replacing cladding that is a fire hazard on buildings) immediately devotes maximum attention to the safety of school children and of course is querying the actions of the Scottish Government.
The Scottish Government that was able to immediately give the number and location of government and local authority buildings that contain RAAC because it, health boards and local authorities had been assessing the situation in Scotland for months.
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reporting scotland on wunday night used an image of knightsridge primary in livingston while reporting on this – school has been closed for at least 2 terms! pupils are taught at deans high and other local schools, no mention of this though just look at this closed school
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