Can't work, won't work

Calton highlighted the fact that some of our young people are unemployable some time ago. Now the training arm of Arnold Clark has confirmed this and it's not just some - it's over 80%. They are poor communicators, poor team players and they don't want to work a 40 hour week. If they've been to college after leaving school, they are even worse. Surely this calls for a complete review of our educational system, which is failing and spoiling our children but no, the Scottish Government's response is that most children leaving school are employable. Just what planet are they on? Calton doesn't blame the teachers - they are trying their best with new curriculums, new terms and conditions, less classroom support for special needs children and more pressure not to exclude disruptive pupils. The problem is the political correctness that says that all children should be in mainstream education, when some would do much better in specialist units, and the lack of political will to get tough with problem kids. Instead they are just shunted around the system. The educational experiments of the last 20 years are coming home to roost. It's time they came to an end and we got back to basics, starting with discipline.