This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter.

Let me be clear: Green MSPs haven’t impressed me any more than those from the other parties, but a lot of what they say they want to do seems pretty reasonable to me.

And the fundamental premise of Green philosophy – that we need an environmentally-conscious political party to protect the planet and the people living on it – is something I would regard as being obvious and self-evident, as is the fact that our dependence on a finite and volatile resource to run the world is an exercise in idiocy.

I’ve voted for the Greens before and may even do so again.

But a question about the party has been niggling away at me for many months, and now feels like the time to ask it: should the Greens be facing more criticism over the state of Scottish education?

The obvious response from members and supporters would likely be ‘no’. After all, they’d argue, the SNP has been in power in Scotland since their co-leaders were still in schools, so........

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