Despite making up around 20% of the sample of around 5 000, a UK-wide survey by Parentkind reveals that Scotland’s parents are significantly happier with the education their children receive than are parents in the other UK nations.
The above list of six key points make clear that after 16 years, the SNP in government has achieved results that have pushed Scottish schools ahead of their counterparts on key concerns. The fifth bullet point should not be misunderstood. It is good. Scottish parents trust the schools to do the work with their children.
Here are some encouraging excerpts from the findings:
Remind me – who is the education correspondent at the BBC?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
More to the point ask who is the educational correspondent of The Ferret.
Or ask if the EIS, SSTA or NASUWT have seen this survey.
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If the media in Scotland decide to use the data in this survey, they will select the worst data, irrespective of country, and present it as ‘shocking education statistics’.
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“Who is the education correspondent at the BBC?”
As for every other subject under the sun, it’s probably Jackie Baillie. She is, I believe, the resident expert in, and spokesperson for, the thinktank Parents In Education, Scotland – better known as pies.
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