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Exemptions from Irish

deirdremf · 2024-02-18 19:06:00

The Irish Independent today reports that the principal of one of Ireland’s elite, private, fee-paying schools – Alexandra College in Dublin (named for an English royal, queen from 1901 to 1910) – wants Irish to be an optional subject. Reading between the lines, it seems that parents in her school want to do away with Irish…

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The Irish Independent today reports that the principal of one of Ireland’s elite, private, fee-paying schools – Alexandra College in Dublin (named for an English royal, queen from 1901 to 1910) – wants Irish to be an optional subject. Reading between the lines, it seems that parents in her school want to do away with Irish – it causes “tension” apparently.
Apparently anxiety caused by Covid makes these parents need an exemption for their children, but they are not so anxious that they need an exemption from French or German! Neither are numbers supplied regarding exemptions from English and maths as a result of Covid anxiety.
The principal has also suggested that we look to the UK for a solution, where one region has made their regional language optional after the age of 16.
“Resentment built up at senior level over compulsion” is another major problem, apparently – so much so that resentment over obligatory maths has resulted in extra points being given for maths in the Leaving cert. Curiously, in this Anglophile establishment resentment over obligatory English isn’t mentioned at all!

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