Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
Why don't the youngsters on Islay train to be teachers? Voila, teacher crisis resolved, school stays open and an element of the refusal of locals to welcome incomers disappears.
That would seem the obvious solution.
However you have to remember that living on Scottish island is like living in a goldfish bowl.
I was once at a quiz night on a Saturday evening in the lounge bar of the White Hart Hotel in Port Ellen where there were a couple of teams of Islay Hig School teachers taking part.
At one point some of their Islay High School pupils passed the hotel and noticed their teachers sitting in the lounge bar.
They started shouting at them from the street outside.
These teachers could not get away from their pupils at the weekend whereas Dundee this is less likely to happen.