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That was the experience that I had with my son during his education. It is that broad base that we must be prepared to protect, and it is the modular courses, especially those available to 16-year-olds, that must be a priority.
In all parts of Scotland, wives, husbands, partners, parents and children are proud, certainly, but worried about a husband or wife, son or daughter, or father or mother who is engaged in a dangerous conflict in a far-off land.
I have also worked on flats that belong to my sons, because two of them are teachers too and cannot afford tradesmen.I have no problem with the principle that Scottish building standards must comply with the European Community's construction products Council directive 90/106/EEC.
Nevertheless, I suggest that the minister comes to Moray and visits James Jones and Sons in Mosstodloch, where we have an up-to-date, highly skilled sawmill and processing plant.
When he and Bill Aitken talk about quality depending on postcode and better-off parents being able to access better education, it is clear that they know little about Scottish education. This week, my son started a law course at the University of Glasgow.
This came totally out of the blue—everyone was looking forward to the careers they were promised."A mother said:"My son gave up his job to go there and has had to pass a lot of tests, only to be told he no longer had a job.
Because of competition and the fact that people are converting to the electric, his sales base in the east side of the county no longer supports his deliveries to the west side.After 29 years of business, and with a son who would take over the business, he is thinking of coming out of delivering coal.
I am particularly delighted to welcome the young people from Ardeer Primary School, which is my local primary school and which provided my son with a good education. Such initiatives will produce young people who are interested not just in the Scottish Parliament, but in world affairs.
That is the equivalent of a father going into his child's bedroom, taking money out of his piggybank and saying, "Look, son, there's some extra cash for your pocket money."