School lost my Junior Cert certificate

DA7800

Since there isn't a general second level forum, I figured that I would stick to where I'm familiar.

I sat my Junior Certificate in June of 2013. I was always under the impression that an actual certificate was mythical, an urban legend. I thought that the black and white slip given to us in September was all we were to receive. I was fine with that, until...

A few days ago certificates were given to people in my class who had skipped transition year, people who sat their junior cert in 2014. I was a bit dumbfounded, as I had never received one at all. I asked management about it, and they went looking. I asked other students, many were under the impression that they had received their certificates, while there were definitely at least 3 who were certain they hadn't, like me.

When pushed, it was revealed that the burden of responsibility was left with the teacher who was then my year head. I had a short conversation with him today and he said that if I didn't get it, and I was certain I didn't get it (which I am), that it was either buried in old paperwork and unlikely to be found, or lost altogether.

So, what's my appropriate response to this? Has anybody else here had a similar experience? Can I request a replacement certificate?

While it didn't bother me before I knew that they do issue certificates, I'm extremely annoyed now. I worked hard to earn the results I got, I sat the examinations, and I paid 109 euro for the pleasure. As such I don't think I'm willing to let it go.

Bazinga_N

You can order a new one here for €14.50: https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=ca&sc=exr

Not sure what to do with your school though, maybe talk to the principal and ask him to order you a new one maybe?

DA7800

Bazinga_N wrote:

You can order a new one here for €14.50:

As I understand it, that's just a statement of the results as opposed to a replacement of the real certificate. As in, it's a black and white copy similar to the ones they give out at first.

They say on the website that under no circumstances can a certificate be replaced, but surely the fact that it was never issued to me by my school in the first place, and then subsequently lost, is significant?

spurious

It's probably in a drawer somewhere in the school.
If it's that big a deal, I'm sure you could pester them to get it.

For a number of years no certificates were issued, so don't feel hard done by.

JK2015

spurious wrote: »

It's probably in a drawer somewhere in the school.
If it's that big a deal, I'm sure you could pester them to get it.

For a number of years no certificates were issued, so don't feel hard done by.

Why was that actually? I got the original JC and LC certs in the post 4 years after I did the leaving.

spurious

JK2015 wrote: »

Why was that actually? I got the original JC and LC certs in the post 4 years after I did the leaving.

I can't remember why - possibly some dispute in the Department? Not sure. I know one year a whole load of certs arrived into our school and some of them were for a number of years previously and people had moved and it was a nightmare to try and match them up. We just filed most of them in past pupil files as the expense of posting them all out would have been high.

Mr Rhode Island Red

I only held any mass on the provisional statement of results one, because it was the document I actually associate with the day of the results.

Anyway, that's the one I framed for meself. The actual certificate is filed away in a box somewhere, couldn't tell you where I put it tbh

DA7800

Update: They found it in a drawer somewhere, as Spurious figured it would be. There were about 25 that were separated from the rest and never issued for some reason. All is well now!