Disappointing response to pupil’s comments on Calderside Academy

Apr 10 2008

I AM writing regarding the response in last week’s Advertiser to a letter the previous week from a fourth-year pupil at Calderside Academy.

As I have never been in Calderside Academy, I cannot comment as to whether the pupil’s comments were justified or not, but at least they had some arguments to put. Not so last week's correspondent, who could only say that the pupil should “stop moaning”.

This smacks very much of the attitude that ‘children should be seen but not heard’.

Yes, school is not an option in life; all the more reason why pupils, who have no choice about going there, should be able to voice their opinions about their school and what’s good and bad about it.

I wonder if an adult who has a problem at work would be so curtly dismissed.

If the correspondent disagrees with the views the pupil has expressed, let them explain why those views are wrong. Simply telling them to shut up makes the correspondent look as if they have no arguments to make.

David Clinton jnr, Hazel Park, Hamilton.