ps John Swinney was out of touch - during a lockdown I joined a nation wide parent council meeting. He came on and said 'oh I'm hearing great things about online live classes etc'. Didn't have a clue. The majority of us had sporadic crap added to google classrooms, with no live teachers, no access to teachers, some subjects no material provided at all. We're in South Lanarkshire - no Ipads handed out to each student here! He didn't have a clue. The approach across local authorities, never mind across schools within LAs or even across classes within a school during lockdowns varied wildly, and hence was all extremely inequitable