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 … Continue reading Crumbling schools – 14 years ago SNP minority government rejected Labour PFI schools contracts that had encouraged the use of cheap concrete