[BITList] Education: pupils will lose marks for poor grammarandspelling - Telegraph

[HUGH]

Mike,

We are told Scottish education is/was better than the English, but I can't 
say if it's true in general or at all.  Much depends on the school, as the 
following will illustrate.  On the 9th of April, 1941, my younger brother 
Iain and I boarded a grey bus outside Chapelton School, Port Glasgow, labels 
with ID attached, and we were driven all the way (about 10 miles) to the 
village of Kilbarchan as evacuees.  This took us further from the shipyards, 
etc, and gave mother a chance with the other 3 siblings when the sirens 
went.  It didn't take us any further from the Ordance Factory at Bishopton, 
though.  We attended the school in Kilbarchan, and (like you) we found we 
were way ahead of our new classmates.  Our glory didn't last - Iain got 
chickenpox, and I went with him to Greendykes Hospital in Johnstone (I've 
never been able to trace it - Janet reckons it was Johnstone ID Hospital 
under a fancy name).  We didn't go back to the Wilkies on Dalhousie Road - 
when Iain recovered, we went back to the bombs on the 8th of July. 
Attendance 28 days out of a possible 42, my Pupil's School Record book says 
(I was given it when I left school), so we were in hospital 14 days, give or 
take a couple.  I had my 8th birthday in Kilbarchan.  I got chickenpox 
later.  One of these days I must go back to Kilbarchan and have a look at 
Dalhousie Road.  It looks just the same on Google - a long line of villas 
with fields at the end.  For somewhere so close, Kilbarchan isn't easy to 
get to.  We used to drive through the outskirts on our way to Greenacres for 
a game of curling.

Hugh.