Letter: Obscure reports

MIXED messages and often bamboozlement are, in my estimate, depressing features within schools just visited by HM Inspectorate (Letters, 19 January).

Having looked at several HMI reports for local newspaper purposes and having been previously a teacher, I have encountered the same jargon-orientated expressions that defy translation into the everyday meaningful language which, for example, teachers are expected to employ when communicating with their pupils.

One can imagine reading such documents to a class of pupils with an expectation of promoting their language comprehension skills. Dear heavens, it would set them back a few scholastic months.

Ian Johnstone

Forman Drive

Peterhead