"Encourage children to speak Scots" says MSP

Rob Gibson MSP, convener of the Cross-Party Group on Scots, called on Scotland's schools to encourage children's use of Scots. Speaking in a debate on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, he said:

"we have to allow children to express their views in their own languages and dialects. If children speak Scots, we should encourage that, because it will build their self-esteem."

According to Mr Gibson, Scottish people have always been at the forefront of the debate about children's rights. To back up his argument, he quoted from Douglas Young's translation of Sorley MacLean's well-known poem "Calvary" and Hamish Henderson's "Freedom Come All Ye".

Read the hail speech here: http://tinyurl.com/5ec525