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There are a couple of obvious problems with this, beyond the argument above that none of it is really necessary.
‘We are heading for massive levels of disruption’
The most galling thing about all of this, of course, is that it is happening because neither parents nor students truly understand the exam system as it is.
Norma Foley’s response to Darina Allen’s campaign shows the same lack of coherence we get from Eamon Ryan
There should be no particular mystery about why it is, this year, that the number of leaving cert students who achieved maximum points absolutely skyrocketed: Here is the share of Leaving Certificate candidates with maximum CAO points since 1995. In that year, 31 candidates (0.05%) had maximum points. In 2020, 577 candidates (1.0%) had maximum […]
No mention of reporting sexual assault.
Some of the books and films on the prescribed list for the English curriculum in secondary schools contain “explicit graphic sexual content including sex between older adults and minors, bestiality and violence including torture.” That’s according to former Minister of State in the Department of Education, Willie O’Dea who has submitted a question to the Minister […]
RTÉ is reporting that the government has agreed to give Leaving Certificate students the option of a calculated grade or written exam in each subject. Minister for Education Norma Foley is set to announce a two-track Leaving Certificate exam process that will see students choose to receive a calculated grade or to do a written […]
“Some of you are waiting with baited breath, for that favourite media phrase, the u-turn”, drawled Margaret Thatcher to the Tory party conference, at the height of her first-term unpopularity. “Well, you turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning”. The most prominent lady in the Irish Government, however, very much is for […]
At approximately this time yesterday morning, the question of “what to do about the schools” was remarkably uncontroversial, as these things go. In the face of an explosion in the number of cases, hospital admissions, and ICU admissions on foot of covid, the country had basically made peace with the fact that schools would not […]
These figures are just for those who missed out because their results were wrongly downgraded. They’re by no means the only students who were completely screwed by the Government’s incompetence, as we’ll explain in a moment: Yesterday it emerged that about 7,200 Leaving Cert grades were affected by errors in the calculated grades system. It […]
The irony is that the illusory quest for total equality has thrown up all sorts of discrimination.
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