Why Is The Sinn Fein Education Spokesperson

jimd2

Not out batting for the students impacted by the standardisation of grades?

I thought that Sinn Fein would be all over this. Unfortunately I think they would be if it was affecting a different demographic.

To me the government / minister and some of the media have missed a key point. The objective should have been to build a system so that EACH STUDENT could get as close as possible to what they would have got in the Leaving Cert. Not easy and it will never fully happen but surely a profile of the prior performance of the school and the subject in the school should help get closer to correct grades.

I would have thought that a Weighted model based on the school performance graduated over recent years and also some weighting for the subject in question and some additional weighting to the individual's junior cert, mocks etc on top of the base of the teacher's assessment would have been possible and would have gotten closer to what the student would have attained.

After all the department had all summer to do it.

But perhaps the department had that model built and were told to drop it following the outcry in England. A proper model would differentiate on prior performance not how wealthy an area is (but are related of course)

So it looks to have been a political decision and the department itself cannot be fully blamed. This government have got a lot wrong so far and I suspect this last minutes decision was wrong also and the model that the department was working on all summer should have been allowed stand as the department probably got a lot of advice and consultancy setting it up.

But where are the Sinn Fein and Labour spokespersons on this?

These parties need to realise that if get into power that they need to represent all kids including those in these schools and not just their own base.

My own kids are not affected and they never attended any of these schools but we need fair play to all students and, if that profile / school/ class normally gets high results then that should have been built in.

JohnnyFlash

Who is the SF education spokesperson? Pretty useless opposition so far tbh. All hot air and faux outrage. Get the feeling we aren't dealing with the brightest bunch of individuals ever elected to the Dáil.

jimd2

Yes,

I had to look up who he was. Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire. Pretty lame so far and on this topic very little comment.

https://twitter.com/Donnchadhol?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Necro

Mod:

OP there are plenty of SF threads in Current Affairs for you to post this in, no need to start a new thread in AH. Thread closed.