Leaving Cert Petition -

leo1526

HI

Why do have to repeat the exams next year? I am , what if im sick? What if i dont do as well as i should for some unforeseen circumstances??

Thers a petition going around for the Leaving cert to have an optional repeat exams..and not 12 months later.. spread the word
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/LC2007/

spurious

Honestly, your time would be better spent studying or going out with your gf/bf.
Getting a second sitting of the exams (which is not at all a new idea) would take a lot more than a Ministerial decision.

JC 2K3

lol

leo1526

hi
thank you for reply...believe me... i not wasting my time.. i have a connection in the Dept. and the only thing thats stopping this idea to go forward is not enough support from the Student Body!!

Its up to you if you dont want to support it the petition.

thanks for looking hun

spurious

leo1526 wrote:

hi
thank you for reply...believe me... i not wasting my time.. i have a connection in the Dept. and the only thing thats stopping this idea to go forward is not enough support from the Student Body!!

Its up to you if you dont want to support it the petition.

thanks for looking hun

Do your Department connections extend to the Department of Finance who will have to fund this, to the schools who will have to close classes to run the second set of exams, to the teacher unions who will have to agree, to the teachers who will have to stop teaching to correct them?

For what it's worth, I agree there should be a second sitting, but your petition is a waste of time.

I'm not your 'hun'.

leo1526

hun .. your such a pessimist .. i wish you all the best in the exams.

cson

leo1526 wrote:

Lets have a second sitting of exams blah blah blah

Yeah! Fight the powah!

leo1526

Guys ... were not here to discuss the "impossibilities" , we're not here to worry about the cost, we're not here to complain..

we just want our voices heard ... its a free petition, no catches.. no debates ... just an OPTIONAL petition for all students..

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/LC2007/

cson

leo1526 wrote:

Guys (lets fight the powah!)... were not here to discuss the "impossibilities" , we're not here to worry about the cost, we're not here to complain..and yet some more blah blah blah blah.

Now, you've mentioned that petition enough for one day. So take you bag and baggage and fcuk off away.

Naikon

I absolutely despise the current system among many others, but this petition probably will not work unless you happen to know very
important people.

Look at the state of the current system, change is hardly on the way following lobbying by IBEC etc, where the same headlines appear every year
promising change.....but nothing positive comes from all this chit chat.
Believe me, not much is going to change the format anytime soon considering the bastards who set this format have left it unchanged from 1924.

The Department of Education is operating in the stone age unfortunately;/

JC 2K3

Pfft.

Down with grade inflation.

leo1526

CSON = Paul Casey = has a small dick

cson

Damn! Thats exactly how I like my whoppers.....flame grilled!

Edit: Are you the one I met in Cuba last sat nite? Damn, they always say a false name is the best form of protection, I'll remember it for the next time.

KarmaCreep

Oops! I'm after putting my name down 3 times. Didn't realise i signed the damn thing. Ah well, let's just say I have multipal personality syndrome.:D

Fobia

Lots of people do the leaving cert in hospital..

I can understand this for the orals, but they already have a system in place for that, if you're sick you sit it a month or two later instead.

If you have a cold or something I think you'd still be grand to sit the exams?

Just not sure it would be worth the effort/cost involved really..

Haven't a Clue

Pfft. And I mean pfft.

JackKelly

leo banned for insults and multiple OT posts

chas_88

remember the hassle there was when mary hanafin tried to move english and irish paper one to early may? since something as small as that was such a problem, autumn repeats are never going to happen. good idea, but impossible to implement.

Patricide

Well theres no harm supporting it if you think its a good idea, its not going to kill you. I mean i personally think it wont work but theres no point not giving it a go.

cson

Unfeasible and wholly outrageous. You'd be waiting a year anyway, no way you would get into college in the same academic year, the CAO wouldn't stand for it for one. Not gonna happen anyway.