GAA people = Cavemen?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Did anybody here ever experience blatant favoritism from teachers/principals to GAA students? Its been a few years since I did my Leaving but I do recall that 3 particular lads, who represented the school at county level and played both hurling and soccer, got a lot of extra time for training, and when they struggled in their exams, the teacher was rumored to have passed then anyway! I dont know how true that was but they definitely were allowed to enter late, leave early and get away with a lot more messing than the non-GAA students.

Anyone else experience this?

Pure bollox.

Teachers can't pass students in the leaving cert because they are good at sport.

The reason they got time off is probably because schools GAA matches (when I played) tend to be played during school hours so of course they are going to miss classes to play matches.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Golaco wrote: »

Incentives to 'study' at a particular institution, additional help not always available to other students. Basically dishing out handy degrees in the hope of attracting top GAA players and maybe winning a Sigerson or 2

You mean like sports scholarships everywhere else throughout the world.

What harm is it doing to anyone else , the teachers can't pass students if they aren't good enough.

Dirty Dingus McGee

demanufactured wrote: »

Nothing worse when im playing s gig in a pub than a load of gaa heads on the piss.. They don't know how to control themselves in a civilized manner.... Apes.

Yes Gaelic Games is the only sport in the world that consists of young men who tend to get a bit boisterous when they have a bit of drink in them.

Without people like that getting pissed in pubs the pub owners may not be able to afford to pay you to play in them.

Meangadh

Taught in a rugby school for a few years, there there was there was a maddening amount of favouritism shown to the lads who played on the school team. So it's not just a GAA thing.

Again, still confused as to how this thread is still open.

Golaco

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

You mean like sports scholarships everywhere else throughout the world.

What harm is it doing to anyone else , the teachers can't pass students if they aren't good enough.

Sports scholarships are formal arrangements. I was talking more about informal ones such as extended deadlines for assignments

In school teachers can't pass students if they aren't good enough. But at 3rd level there's a lot more wiggle room for lecturers

If classes are being graded on a curve then you potentially have people skewing that curve and impacting other students

It's not going to bring the planet to a grinding halt or anything but it does happen

Capt'n Midnight

GAA people = Cavemen?

That's an unfair comparison. Cavemen invented fire, tools, agriculture, and art.

iDave

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

GAA people = Cavemen?

That's an unfair comparison. Cavemen invented fire, tools, agriculture, and art.

The Irish people viewed those great advancements and improved on it creating the GAA.

dirtyden

Meangadh wrote: »

Taught in a rugby school for a few years, there there was there was a maddening amount of favouritism shown to the lads who played on the school team. So it's not just a GAA thing.

Again, still confused as to how this thread is still open.

Agreed, if it was any of the other sacred cows on boards this thread would have been locked on page 1.

iDave

Interesting. The other anti sport threads are closed but this still open.

galljga1

dirtyden wrote: »

Agreed, if it was any of the other sacred cows on boards this thread would have been locked on page 1.

Dingus just had his rugby thread closed.

Sports in the sports forums please. Read their charters before posting please.

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