The status of Gaelic in the Scottish education system

[Indy]

YES, Gaelic should be learned (DVDs etc) in every primary school and high school in Scotland.

It's our language and was at one time spoken all over Scotland tll English took over.

It's our language and it is proving very popular wherever it is taught.

Moreover, kids studying Gaelic from an early age are doing better at languages in general.

[tig]

Originally Posted by JCfromGA

English Is not the official lan
guage of the US but it's taught in school...

Wish I would have thought of it sooner... Imagine all the English homework I could have gotten out of...

When English is taught in the US is it not reading and writing that's being taught? Not another language.

I know it will be taught as a language for non speakers tho as it is in most countries.

They should teach gaelic in every school here instead of compulsory French

[JCfromGA]

Hey Tig,

America has no official language... in parts of Scotland where Gaelic is taught, it is taught just like English is here in America... for kids who are not native speakers here in the US, they have to take an English as a Second Language to learn to speak it... and then read it and write it like the other children. So, you have to learn to speak English even though it is not an official language.

In fact to put a silly twist on it, there are children who speak Gaelic as a first language and then have to learn English in the school... oh my!!

[maxkirk]

Originally Posted by JCfromGA

It is indigenous to parts of Scotland...

Gaelic might possibly be Indigenous to the parts of Scotland where Pictish is not .
Those parts will be somewhere south of Hadrian's Wall .

Again , this thread is not about the usa and it languages .

[tig]

results so far

Yes, all over Scotland after having begun with it in the Western Isles and Highlands 1 25.00%
Yes, in the Western Isles and Highlands 1 25.00%
No 1 25.00%
Other 1 25.00%

lol

[maxkirk]

this poll is bunkum . its set out to gather a skewered result

Yes, all over Scotland after having begun with it in the Western Isles and Highlands .

Yes, in the Western Isles and Highlands .

Why does the teaching have to start in the Western Isles and Highlands ?

Why ignore the areas in Scotland where schools have have started teaching the language already. Why not give them the recognition they deserve as being core places to feed the resurgence from ?

Why only in the Western Isles and Highlands ?



Gaelic was spoken in much , possibly all of Scotland at one time or another . All deserve the opportunity .

Also , many of the people who live in other part of Scotland descend from refuges of the clearances , economic mismanagement etc .


No and Other ? why even put them in the survey ?