Petition Discussions

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Petition ID Commenter Date Comment
2869 Professor Kathy Rastle 2017-07-04T14:32:50.987 This is a very important initiative for literacy standards in Scotland. There is now a substantial research base demo...
2869 Robert W Sweet Jr, President, The National Right to Read Foundation, USA 2017-07-04T15:54:09.493 For several decades the National Institutes for Child Health and Human Development have been sponsoring quantitative ...
2869 Donnchadh MacGuaire 2017-07-04T16:48:37.537 Tha an obair seo air leth feumail and da chuid airson Foghlam tro mheadhain na Gaidhlig ri foghlam annam Beurla no ca...
2869 Catherine Quinn 2017-07-04T20:16:23.853 I support this.
2869 Geraldine Carter 2017-07-04T20:30:18.23 In England, Australia, US, Gov Committees have concluded that Synthetic Phonics is the most successful way to teach c...
2879 Rosemary Dolan 2017-07-05T14:19:19.063 Pakistan has justified its treatment og atheist blogger on the basis of blasphemy laws in western countries.
2869 Valma Adams 2017-07-06T15:41:22.337 Our young people face a dark future in an already crumbling education system. Allow teachers to teach, but train the...
2869 Christopher Jolly 2017-07-06T16:07:05.043 Scotland has been a world leader in the past in education, and specifically in synthetic phonics through the Clackman...
2798 Juli Harris 2017-07-06T23:29:36.583 Huge swathes of land set aside for this Victorian pastime of the wealthy and connected. Surely there are better ways ...
2798 Jane Kidd 2017-07-06T23:32:50.21 Let's re-green the Highlands
2798 Margaret K 2017-07-07T00:01:46.87 Justification for loss of natural habitat and other wildlife
2869 Angela Jordan 2017-07-07T09:26:30.68 I have used a synthetic phonics system to teach struggling readers one to one for one hour per week and have raised t...
2879 Alistair Donald Charles Harley 2017-07-07T14:45:16.727 Blasphemy laws, even if rarely used retain the potential. They are reactionary and regressive and an affront to freed...
2798 margaret walker 2017-07-07T17:24:02.53 Goshawk viewing platforms could add, to the list of birds of prey.
2798 Linda Moore 2017-07-07T22:18:34.257 It's time that the many who love the countryside are listened to above the few who want to destroy it.
2869 Elaine van den Akker 2017-07-07T23:44:16.77 This is important stuff.
2869 Lynn Wallace 2017-07-08T00:46:06.31 I have been using systematic explict phonics teaching successfully with previously illiterate children with 100% succ...
2869 Chiara 2017-07-08T04:10:38.573 Essential research-based knowledge is being lost in education and far too many teachers leaving university now no lon...
2798 Sarah Bradford 2017-07-08T15:19:53.52 67% of wildlife on Earth has disappeared since the 1970's - a study into this unnecessary activity is more than essen...
2798 Iain Buik 2017-07-08T16:27:13.14 Too many Government subsidies are being leeched out to these minority buisnesses, who have their own means of financi...
2798 Louise Raine Hantman 2017-07-08T19:23:29.96 Please help these endangered birds!
2869 Tahira Sheikh 2017-07-09T09:52:34.31 I am a systematic synthetic phonics trainer living in Pakistan. This approach of teaching has helped so many teachers...
2869 Eileen Measey 2017-07-09T15:51:12.547 The Clackmannanshire study inspired me to organise SP teacher training in a small island in the Caribbean. Since the ...
2798 Ann Ellis 2017-07-09T20:17:10.853 I strongly believe that all wildlife should be allowed to thrive not be killed at the expense of a single pursuit
2798 Simon Neachell 2017-07-09T22:07:55.977 Let's end this cruel industry and turn the spaces into national parks.
2798 Duncan Young 2017-07-10T15:09:28.177 Yeah i agree
2798 Tom MacDonald 2017-07-10T22:25:31.423 Driven grouse shooting is not an economic or cultural asset, but an unhealthy obsession that suppresses our natural h...
2879 Tim Puntis 2017-07-11T08:02:14.657 Very important that these harmful laws removed.
2798 Karen Walker 2017-07-11T10:51:38.867 I live in a beautiful part of Perthshire and my neighbours are the beautiful grouse that come in to the garden every ...
2879 Iain Campbell 2017-07-11T20:14:54.163 Only theocracies require blasphemy laws.
2879 Ian Angles 2017-07-11T22:10:00.63 Which god were you meaning?
2798 Alexandra Campbell 2017-07-12T00:29:54.343 The value of driven grouse shooting appears to be grossly overstated. No breakdown of the figures has been given, to...
2879 Cp 2017-07-12T19:31:53.82 Come on Scotland. You take the rights, privileges and monies from the EU, so about time you respected human rights, a...
2869 Peter Teesdale 2017-07-14T11:02:07.597 This issue has to be addressed as I am shocked by how far standards of literacy have fallen. I travel extensively and...
2900 Helen McDade 2017-07-17T19:55:14.477 I applaud Bill Welsh's relentless commitment to trying to get the issue of increased autism and auto-immune problems ...
2653 Pat Lee 2017-07-18T16:23:55.543 Democracy is not served by allowing failed candidates to be guaranteed a seat through the the List system. Time to cl...
2653 Alan Morrison 2017-07-18T17:19:42.63 The Additional Member System is a fudge and needs to be replaced. I think we should go to STV with Robson Rotation to...
2798 Michael Bible 2017-07-18T20:22:29.653 Save the raptors, and the grouse.
2798 Paddy Hanrahan 2017-07-18T21:28:30.213 Once again our wildlife are being exterminated for the money, and that's the Grouse also let's live in the 21st centu...
2798 Jonathan Theobald 2017-07-18T22:59:02.85 My regular visits to the Highlands are made much less enjoyable by the systematic destruction - much of it illegal - ...
2798 Bob Morris 2017-07-18T23:03:15.443 It is essential that claims made by the grouse shooting industry are fully assessed since claims often appear to be e...
2653 Richard Alexander 2017-07-19T14:13:36.077 Our politicians must be elected on merit only and the public must have the ability to reject them when they fail us. ...
2653 Ian Foulds 2017-07-19T15:06:35.05 I do not want party apparatchiks in my Parliament as they do not benefit the people of Scotland. They only benefit th...
2653 Liz White 2017-07-19T15:07:47.52 prime example is the unelectable Murdo Fraser the man no one wants yet he is there bold as brass lording it over the ...
2653 Robert Graham 2017-07-19T15:09:31.037 long overdue
2653 Lesley McGilvary 2017-07-19T15:15:25.783 This system saw my local community deprived of an excellent hard working msp and needs this change it is undemocratic...
2653 Pam McMahon 2017-07-19T15:31:45.79 The Scottish Parliament electoral system was set up by the Labour party of the time in order to ensure a unionist maj...
2653 Carol Jardine 2017-07-19T16:02:31.027 The regional list system is abused on a regular basis. If the electorate don't vote for you then you shouldn't be giv...
2653 Robert Traquair 2017-07-19T16:08:01.497 This is an extremely unfair voting system whereby the electorate are literally ignored when they have decided that th...
2653 William Henderson 2017-07-19T16:15:45.473 Any review of the current system of election to the Scottish Parliament could usefully include an examination of the ...