Strong prime lamb prices left sufficient margins for commercial producers to part repeatedly with £1,000 or more for strong terminal sires and set a new
I READ with interest your article on online learning ( All-change for pupils after lessons online branded ‘postcode lottery’ , The Herald, February 1). I don’t understand the desire for pupils to be locked to a screen for live teaching for six hours on a daily basis. I don’t imagine our MSPs attend 30 hours of online parliamentary business every week in person nor via video link. Delivering learning through online classes seems archaic and little more than a virtual babysitting service quantified as “education”. Good teaching means understanding different learning styles, requirements and circumstances of pupils. How should larger families with limited devices prioritise children’s access to education? What if there is no suitable distraction-free space for a child during a lesson? If an internet provider crashes, does that result in an entire day of learning being lost?