Letter: School results

As a parent I was interested to read your story about school performance (16 December), but quite shocked then to see that the school my daughter attends, Sandwick Junior High, was ranked bottom equal.

Of course there is a simple explanation: there are no S5 pupils at either Sandwick Junior High or indeed Baltasound Junior High, also ranked bottom equal. Both schools are junior highs, which provide education to year 4 only; year 5 and 6 pupils take highers elsewhere at one of Shetland's several high schools.

It is disappointing that whoever prepared the main story did not bother to do a quick bit of research to see how this anomaly arose before flagging it up in the paper.

I hope you will publish a suitable explanation as it is unfair on the staff and pupils of both these schools to be incorrectly highlighted in such a way.

Robert Bell

Sandwick

Shetland