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That may be irrelevant to this but, when you put it all together, there was an accumulation over 15 to 20 years of the Scottish system really deteriorating, having been the admiration of the world. I do not want to overdo it. As I said, all my children have been through it and managed to get qualifications—they have all got on—but they had some real issues while they were there. Other children perhaps did not do as well and many teachers found it extraordinarily difficult to cope, particularly when they did not know what they were preparing children for.