Richard Leonard The website of Richard Leonard MSP, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
19 January 2019
Commenting on reports in TES today that subjects are being removed 'below the radar' because of the teacher recruitment crisis, Labour's Education spokesperson Iain Gray said:
"This is a brutal appraisal of the SNP's so called top priority by the very people in the front line - our teachers.
"After eleven years of SNP government the workforce crisis in our schools is so bad that subjects are being removed.
"That would be shocking enough - but the idea that this is being obscured is simply disgraceful.
"To start to reverse this mess we need to see proper funding for our schools and a fair deal for our teachers."