Irish In Schools

I Was VB

I'm 24 and when i went to school i learned the bones, an bhfuail cead agam duil go dti an letheras agus phog mo thon :pac:

Looking back on it now i really regret that my parents didnt send me to a Irish speaking Primary school.

Just wondering if its still being teached in schools at the same extent than i was last there, or are they fading it out along with other cutbacks??

minidazzler

Teached? They should sort your English first :P its still taught though, but more people get exemptions now

msg11

I Was VB wrote: »

didnt send me to a Irish speaking Primary school.

Primary schools can speak ?

deise go deo

Yes Irish is still taught in Primary school(why wouldent it be?)


As for Gaelscoileanna, They are going from strength to strength and hopefully the next government have the sense to support them properly.

rockmongrel

Irish should still be taught. Should be optional after the Junior Cert and the whole curriculum, from primary until 6th year should be completely overhauled. None of this poetry/prose stuff, teach it as a language like French, not a subject like English.

Irish_Elect_Eng

I Was VB wrote: »

Looking back on it now i really regret that my parents didnt send me to a Irish speaking Primary school.
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Looking forward I regret that my parents did not send me to a Chinese speaking school :-( It would have given me a significant educational advantage over my peers.

There was a massive thread on this topic last week...

Nothingbetter2d

personal i dont see what is wrong with change irish from being a compulsory to voluntary subject

Irish for most of us is a useless waste of time.

Yes im irish and yes i do think it should still be taught just to those that actually want to learn it rather than forcing everyone that dont want to learn it.

there is only a very small percentage of irish people that still speak irish.

the time wasted learning irish in school could be better spent learning real skills such as economics (to reduce the risk of destroying our economy again) or science (to improve or tech jobs creation & research) or a useful foreign language such as german, spanish, or mandorin) or I.T. to improve our competitiveness in a high tech world.

Irish as a life skill for most people is pretty much being able to read a road sign and sing the national anthem at a football match.

oh and before the "it's part of our heritage" crowd start to troll at me.... we have lost alot of whats irish already......... our currency, our sovereignty to a certain extent (germany/imf owns us now and until we pay back the 100+bil we are forced to borrow) our language actually costs us tax payers quite a bit as is in translating every piece of documentation the gov issues into irish just so a few thousand irish speakers can satisfy their epeen.

gent9662

The Irish language is as W.B Yeats put's it... it's with O'Leary in the grave

When I was in 6th year I think there was 1 or 2 lads that really wanted to do Irish, the other 200 hated it with a passion!

We should be teaching French/Spanish to young kids, that way at least they can converse with a wider range of people when they travel. Which I think they will be doing in the coming years given the state of Ireland at the moment!

Notorious97

Irish_Elect_Eng wrote: »

Looking forward I regret that my parents did not send me to a Chinese speaking school :-( It would have given me a significant educational advantage over my peers.

Why learn Chinese? Sure just put on a Chinese accent when speaking to Chinese people as Mr Martin has clearly found a way of communicating without learning their language :pac:

grrrrrrrrrr

Its still being taught the exact same way. Theu are bringing a revised syllabus into secondary schools next year but it id hardly a change really.

I dont see why students best interests should be held at ransom by old women in The gealtachts who just want to make money out of the students. Its like wanting to introduce complusary polish so all the polish immigrants can make a small fortune on grinds.

Rte majority of people who go to the gaeltachts are in primary school or junior cycle anyway. And it'll still be complusary for junior cert. Parents dont send children so they'll radically improve their Irish, they just send them because it has almost become a rite of passage. And children and teens dont fi to learn Irish, they just go for the 'craic' and to meet members of the opposite sex.

Wibbs

minidazzler wrote: »

Teached? They should sort your English first :P

Joking aside is it just me or is anyone else noticing the standard of English dropping of late? The written stuff anyway. Not little mistakes, we all have them, but the really obvious ones like above.

its still taught though, but more people get exemptions now

Really? [pensioner squawk]In myyy day [/pensioner squawk] the only exemption available was if you were born outside Ireland. Ironically the only native speaker in my entire school was born in France and moved back when a baby. He was exempt. Oh how we envied him.

Deleted User wrote: »

There was a massive thread on this topic last week...

Try yesterday and the day before.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

There was a massive thread on this topic last week...

And it won't stop being an issue until kids are given the choice as to whether they study it or not.

Another Irish thread? Can we merge all these together? Please?

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

And it won't stop being an issue until kids are given the choice as to whether they study it or not.

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