Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

No place for child in local school

13»

Comments

  • #62
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    The whole system is a mess.


  • #63
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,021 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    bulmersgal wrote: »
    You never no a place might come available in the educate together school near me my daughter was 33 on the list and there was suppose to be two junior infant classes. 3 years later i ring up to be told she's 79 on the list and their will only be 1 junior infant class. She got bumped down by siblings coming first.

    Then today she got accepted into the gaelscoil in maynooth which is great but it is 15 minutes out of way roughly. But the local school near us doesn't issue acceptance letters till March so I will have to accept maynooth just in case.

    Just remember to let the school know immediately if you decide not to take it. There will be over 100 people waiting for that space.They still have people waiting for places in the current JI class.


  • #64
    bulmersgal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭bulmersgal


    Moonbeam wrote: »
    Just remember to let the school know immediately if you decide not to take it. There will be over 100 people waiting for that space.They still have people waiting for places in the current JI class.

    Oh I will it's just plain rude not too. I was onto other school and they still taking names till the 7th of feb. She said last year they accepted 60 and had waiting list of 8. Those 8 were summer babies so it's likely she'll get a place


  • #65
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,546 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    G-Man wrote: »
    Listen I believe the minister is about to strike down the whole interviewing the kid or the parents to see if they can speak irish.. Again this seems reasonable to some but then why do Gaelscoils get to discriminate against some kid who might have a wholehearted desire to speak Irish but just does not have the support of family to demonstrate it. SHOULD NON GAELSCOILS GET TO discrimate against kids who come from households with none of of our national languages and perhaps no desire or even a dislike of them and our culture in ireland.... you can imagine where that would end up, but when Gaelscoils do it its seen as OK? I actually like GaelScoils .
    We are a hugely oversubscribed Gaelscoil, we have never interviewed since the school was founded. The vast majority of Gaelscoileanna do not interview parents, it seems to be a D4 type thing. We have children from many different backgrounds and whose parents come from many different countries. Please don't generalize so broadly.


  • #66
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,021 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    That is one of the reasons Maynooth Gaelscoil is lovely,there are kids with parents of many nationalities .
    We applied to a lot of schools(only gaelscoileanna) when we found out that we had no local place and not one required an interview.


  • Advertisement
  • #67
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Moonbeam wrote: »
    That is one of the reasons Maynooth Gaelscoil is lovely,there are kids with parents of many nationalities .
    We applied to a lot of schools(only gaelscoileanna) when we found out that we had no local place and not one required an interview.

    Same with my fellas one. He has kids in his class whose parents only learnt English 6 years, let alone Irish. The school assumes the parents have no Irish


Advertisement