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What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Warning in Post #8023**

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    #5702
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,725 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Streaming should be brought back for secondary school and students allowed to move from one group to another based on ability, rather than one class having a mix of students for foundation, ordinary and higher level - no one is really getting what they need. I'd say that's more important than at primary level.

    Nowadays parents are just relieved if they manage to get their child into a school in some areas.

    https://forumofgames.com/



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    #5703
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,834 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Don’t agree. My kid is in first class and there are 5 grown ups in the room, teacher, assistant and 3 SNAs.
    It’s probably a different story at secondary level though. Those hormones kick in and boys with macho dads start thinking they’re all that.



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    #5704
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,992 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122792008#Comment_122792008

    Is that in England, or up north? We don’t have teaching assistants here, as far as I know anyway.

    Or is it a DEIS school? I, personally, think all schools should be run like DEIS schools. Would certainly help with the inclusion model.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #5705
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,834 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    It’s an educate together in Dublin. I don’t think the person refers to themself as assistant, that’s my term, but it’s what they are.



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    #5706
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122791791#Comment_122791791

    That's kinda different to the problem you talked about in your previous post though - kids with behaviour issues and kids who might not be as intellectual holding others back - and this solution does nothing to address either.

    You can't sort primary school kids out by trade or aptitude - how do you know an 8-10 year old is going to be good at cookery or art or carpentry or even interested in any of those things? Secondary school - maybe, but I think there are trends towards that anyway with transition years.

    Classrooms and school also help with social and emotional development and learning how to be part of a group is an important part of going to school.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #5707
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,786 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122791839#Comment_122791839

    What kind of different system? This was pre junior cert years where the classes were differentiated based on (I think dropping a language as a subject). Going into the leaving, the classes would then be determined by chosen subjects and English, Irish and Maths being broken out by level.
    Aside from having a lot more teachers/classrooms and maybe threats of expulsion/parents being forced to intervene more, I can’t think of a different way.



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    #5708
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796373#Comment_122796373

    Appointing them.to his cabinet....??

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #5709
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,786 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Someone figured out the auld pair’s wifi password.



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    #5710
    The Golden Miller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    I get the logic to why Hitler did what he did.



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    #5711
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796436#Comment_122796436
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796674#Comment_122796674

    Not sure the phrase "ends justify the means" applies here! Logic is one thing, but Hitler, like all far right wingers, trades that in for emotion and it's usually all downhill from there. "Populism" is the modern parlance, I believe.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #5712
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm disgusted by Israel's (and anywhere's) mass slaughter but nothing justifies hatred of all Jews. It's fkd up.



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    #5713
    The Golden Miller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796696#Comment_122796696

    Does anyone hate all Jews though? Seems like people being anti zionist is confounded by the media as anti semitism



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    #5714
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796705#Comment_122796705

    Oh I know there are constant false claims of anti-Semitism for merely criticising the mass slaughter of children, but there is actual anti-Semitism too, and it's disturbing.



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    #5715
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796373#Comment_122796373

    So what do you have to do to deserve a bad rep, kill a billion people rather than a few million?



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    #5716
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,713 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122791859#Comment_122791859

    I didn’t know they did away with that . Seems ludicrous that they’d have a class of 30+ children with vastly different abilities



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    #5717
    Ella108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭Ella108


    Don't know if it was mentioned before:

    1) Smoking ban would ease health care burden, therefore should be implemented

    2) Mothers should be encouraged to stay at home and most importantly they should be supported and valued. There should be at least 4 years of paid(min basic income) maternity leave otherwise.



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    #5718
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,713 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Ireland should demand the return of Roger Casements diaries as a matter of national importance.



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    #5719
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,713 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Watching CL highlights and Kelleher should be Liverpool goalkeeper no 1



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    #5720
    Vote4Squirrels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Vote4Squirrels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796705#Comment_122796705

    It is giving free rein to the antisemitic losers to THEN claim they are merely protesting Israel. Attacking synagogues, assaulting anyone who, to their limited intellect, looks Jewish.

    And the UK police let them get away with it.

    The so called palestinian flag should be banned.



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    #5721
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    Those who espouse Russian/Chinese/Iranian/Hezbollah/Hamas talking points should be sent on a one way all expenses paid fact finding trip to these places.



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    #5722
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802364#Comment_122802364

    Only someone who doesn't know the difference between Anti Zionism and Anti semitism would have an issue with the Palestinian flag. Isreal love pretending that the people against their slow genocide are against Jews when really they just don't want genocide



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    #5723
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Being anti mass slaughter is very fair - in relation to any case, including that of Hamas.



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    #5724
    The Golden Miller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122796714#Comment_122796714

    Well capitalism is an immoral abyss. From the foundations of society, a Jewish construct. They'd be sending people to break your legs from the start of time if you didn't pay debts etc.

    There's a reason they have probably never been well liked but play the victim card. And Jews around the globe generally turn a blind eye to what Israel does.

    No smoke without fire. I've nothing against any Jew on a personal level, but to be honest, can't say I particularly like them tbh, for some of the stuff outlined above



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    #5725
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,786 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Ooooooooooooooooooooooh.



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    #5726
    djan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭djan


    Well it is a controversial opinion thread after all… sure finance and lending was brought about by the Sumerians before Judaism was established properly but don't let that get in the way.

    A lot of dislike just stems from envy of substantial wealth and accomplishments by a small group of people.



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    #5727
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,786 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122806924#Comment_122806924

    And getting the blame for the Romans putting an uppity carpenter to death.



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    #5728
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122802381#Comment_122802381

    Can we add Isreal to that list?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #5729
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122809106#Comment_122809106

    Yep them too, tho now that Putin’s puppy has won again and Biden no longer has any reason to restrain them (all them Lefties and Arab Americans voting for trump or staying at home must be kicking themselves now)

    I fully expect to see Trump Resorts stretching from the river to the sea



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    #5730
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I don't get the West's love affair with Ukraine. They were selling weapons to the Myanmar military, they're just another dirty player on the world stage.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #5731
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122810691#Comment_122810691

    When innocent civilians get murdered people are always going to care



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