This is bizarre, given that it was a focal point for the successful dispatch of the first set of closure proposals, with the evidenced  challenge from ARSN, through Sandy Longmuir of SSN, upheld by external experts and eventually admitted by the council.

Yet in this submission, Me Sneddon gets it wrong again. He quotes: ‘.’The small schools element of GAE is allocated to authorities as a per capita payment (currently approximately £2,450 per annum) in respect of each pupil in schools which have less than 70 pupils enrolled.

SRSN’s Sandy Longmuir says, wearily: ”The figure for Argyll and Bute Council in 2011-12 is £3,877,838 for 1413 qualifying pupils. This gives a per pupil figure of £2744 per pupil. They used the figure of £2730 in the second set of proposals last spring – we did not argue this.’

Hilariously, in this response Mr Sneddon goes on to suggest a sliding scale of GAE funding – which would have some merit if it did not come from a man who cannot master a single scale of calculation.