Gaelic Authors for New Highland Writing Initiative

[The Pepsi Challenge]

Spotted this on the front page, and all begs the question: will they cite Caithness schools as a priority (probably not)? And do the parents of school children on this messageboard actually want/ care if their children is given an insight into Gaelic? Am genuinely curious having read Robert Louis Stevenson's observations on Gaelic in the county last night. A'body?

[The Pepsi Challenge]

The lack of resonse here pretty much answers my question.

[Bill Fernie]

Maybe this link will help get it going -
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rlstevenson/bl-rlst-acr-6.htm

[Valerie Campbell]

To me, Gaelic is a language for Sutherland and the western isles and down the west coast. I don't associate it with Caithness at all. I can speak Gaelic but originally it was just to translate songs although it was useful on Harris. People would be chatting away and I didn't feel like a foreigner. I'm interested in it as a bygone language, but I can speak French, German and some Russian so maybe I just wanted to add it to my collection!