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Should the gov cover the cost of alternative education centres?

  • 04-05-2014 5:37pm
    #1
    happywithlife
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    I was recently privileged enough to encounter some of the students from The Life Centre in Cork which is a centre that allows kids to finish their education when mainstream school fails them.
    We all know there are kids out there that just simply don't fit the round peg of the current mainstream school, but have the potential and ability to do well in an alternative forum.
    This centre currently receives funding from the Christian Brothers but they are unable to continue to offer the 90k a year they have been putting up. So they are facing closure as the dept currently are not prepared to replace the lost funding. (Btw they have an online petition going but rules being rules I can't redirect you with a link but please please either goggle it or pm me for it)

    My question is this
    When is it obvious that the current model of mainstream schooling isn't suitable for all, should the dept do more to provide alternative education centres. I know youth reach is on offer but they're usually bursting at the seams as well. Should the dept support the life centre?


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  • #2
    ustazjoseph
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    While I don't have all the facts I have an instinctive concern that this is another of these messy state/charity interface situations. Like our voluntary school , hospital and sen provision the lines get blurred. I believe the cb s owe us a lot from their darker days. If the charity sector can't provide a necessary service the the state has to. Maybe convert the entire centre to youthreach ie total state control .?


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