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      <title>mrs liz faren [Signature #2401]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs liz faren, Inverness, scotland, Scotland<p>Classroom assistants do a better job than the qaulified teachers in Croy!!..Should have moved mine years ago...really regret not doing it!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms caroline Howe [Signature #2400]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms caroline Howe, Aviemore, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:18:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Fiona Dilston [Signature #2399]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Fiona Dilston, HEBDEN BRIDGE, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<p>there are many other things that can go before teaching assistants</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:06:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Catherine Heughan [Signature #2398]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Catherine Heughan, Alness]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:30:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Kirsty Peters [Signature #2397]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:54:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Kirsten Campbell [Signature #2396]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:26:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs heather ogg [Signature #2395]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs heather ogg, inverness, United Kingdom<p>my daughter needs help at her school with certain subjects, if it wasnt for classroom assistants then she wouldnt get the help she needs</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mrs Theresa Mackay [Signature #2394]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Theresa Mackay, INVERNESS, Highland<p>What are you even thinking!! this will let every child down.try going into a school for the day see what there up against, Decisions are made all to often by people sitting behind a desk with no idea whats really going on in our schools. PLEAsE DO NOT GO AHEAD WITH THIS IDEA</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jun 2011 02:10:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss lisa innes [Signature #2389]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Isla Burton, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland<p>e need to invest in children and these post-holders play a huge part in their development</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs S Glenday [Signature #2381]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 05:22:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>peggie wratten [Signature #2380]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 05:09:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Liz Robertson [Signature #2379]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr darrren richardson, BIRMINGHAM<p>my family have worked in the educational system for a number of years.and haveing grown up in the highlands i think getting ridd off classroom help would put a greater strain on the fulltime teachers who do an incredible job.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:34:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:25:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:20:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Sharon Martin [Signature #2373]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Sharon Martin, Inverness, United Kingdom<p>My children attend a small rural school where there are between 18 and 25 children in a class P1-3, P4/5 and P6/7 and each class has children requiring addition learning support. There is not enough learning support in the schools and now you want to take out more applying more pressure to teachers. Stop making cuts in our schools and start supporting them, help them to help our children through their crucial formative years.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Nicky McGhie, Inverness, United Kingdom<p>It is a disgrace that classroom assistants are being pulled out. They are there to help the teachers and without them, will cause a lot of stress to the teachers and children. Many children who find things more difficult than others, gain from their help. Without them the young children today wont be given the same chance to grow up and become hard working and able adults. These children are the future and are worth the money!</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:35:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:24:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:19:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:18:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:17:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Deborah Rattray [Signature #2366]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Deborah Rattray, Alness, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:04:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Katrina McKinlay, Inverness]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:02:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs marie colquhoun, kyle, United Kingdom<p>i think the classroom assistant&#039;s job&#039;s should not be done away with, many pupil&#039;s benefit from the many skill&#039;s that they share</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Diane Duffy, Inverness, United Kingdom<p>These posts are vital and must be kept</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anne Hunter, Kirkcaldy, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Joan Murray, Erbusaig, United Kingdom<p>keep our classroom assistants our Children &amp; Teachers need them and more of them not less!!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[MRS SHIRLEY FRASER, broadford, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Katrina Oag, Inverness, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 06:30:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew Ward, Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom<p>Obviously the greater the staff to child ratio the more attention and better learning for the children, less pressures for the teachers and the greater the development support for the children.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 12:22:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR ALAN PEDDER, NAIRN, NAIRNSHIRE, United Kingdom<p>THERE ARE TOO MANY CHIEFS AND NOT ENOUGH INDIANS IN THE HIGHLAND COUNCIL AND THEIR DESICION MAKING ABOUT CLASSROOM ASSISTANTS BEGGERS BELIEF.CHOP A FEW CHIEFS AND SECURE OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE FOR THAT TO ME IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE.THERE HAS TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO MESSING WITH THE IMPORTANT FIRST YEARS OF A CHILDS EDUCATION.COME ON HIGHLAND COUNCIL WAKEN UP DO THE RIGHT THING FOR OUR CHILDREN THEY ARE YOUR FUTURE.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:48:19 UTC</pubDate>
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