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Czarcasm · 07-01-2013 12:02AM

1ZRed wrote: »

Yeah, because my post was completely devoid of punctuation and syntax. I'd better drop down to pass so :pac:

Not you Izzy, the poster before you who I would also hope isn't taking social studies as a subject, or whatever they're calling it these days, CSP?

I don't know how popular or unpopular this is going to sound but in my opinion the curriculum is seriously being dumbed down to accommodate todays students who just couldn't be bothered making the effort to study, and then complain about their "stressful" workload.

steddyeddy · 07-01-2013 12:05AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Not you Izzy, the porter before you who I would also hope isn't taking social studies as a subject, or whatever they're calling it these days, CSP?

I don't know how popular or unpopular this is going to sound but in my opinion the curriculum is seriously being dumbed down to accommodate todays students who just couldn't be bothered making the effort to study, and then complain about their "stressful" workload.

I completely agree. It should be made a lot harder plus there should be an entrance exam before each course like some other countries do.

oldscoil · 07-01-2013 10:18AM

Jedward are great role models for kids.

They are athletic, have positive attitudes, will try their hand at anything and they do not give a fcuk what other people think of them!

Actaully fcuk that, they are great role models for all of us!

Ush1 · 07-01-2013 10:21AM

oldscoil wrote: »

Jedward are great role models for kids.

They are athletic, have positive attitudes, will try their hand at anything and they do not give a fcuk what other people think of them!

Actaully fcuk that, they are great role models for all of us!

Yeah, either that or they'll do anything for money and fame?

Sometimes giving a f*ck is a good thing.

kunst nugget · 07-01-2013 10:25AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Not you Izzy, the poster before you who I would also hope isn't taking social studies as a subject, or whatever they're calling it these days, CSP?

I don't know how popular or unpopular this is going to sound but in my opinion the curriculum is seriously being dumbed down to accommodate todays students who just couldn't be bothered making the effort to study, and then complain about their "stressful" workload.

It was always dumb, Everyone just has a romantic notion of having it much harder than the present generation. If your parents still have your old school books, go to their house and have a flick through them. You'll be amazed at how embarrassingly simplistic they were.

Thwip! · 07-01-2013 01:35PM

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

so over mumford & sons, think most of their songs sound the same, same goes for the script!

Every Mumford & Sons song ever made

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 07-01-2013 01:42PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

It was always dumb, Everyone just has a romantic notion of having it much harder than the present generation. If your parents still have your old school books, go to their house and have a flick through them. You'll be amazed at how embarrassingly simplistic they were.

nope. i looked at some of the old 'whatever the hell it was called before it was called the leaving cert' papers back when i was in school in the late 90's. much much harder than anything I was doing.

BeerSteakBirds · 07-01-2013 02:06PM

The Indians sure have kept their mouth shut about our medical treatment of women ever since their own widespread rape scandal revelations.

*unpopular opinion because of hypocritical moral relativism*

geeky · 07-01-2013 02:08PM

In bullfighting, I root for the one with horns. Every single time.

jaffacakesyum · 07-01-2013 04:04PM

BeerSteakBirds wrote: »

The Indians sure have kept their mouth shut about our medical treatment of women ever since their own widespread rape scandal revelations.

*unpopular opinion because of hypocritical moral relativism*

All men involved in the rape have been arrested and charged and will most likely be found guilty.

Lollipops23 · 07-01-2013 04:07PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

All men involved in the rape have been arrested and charged and will most likely be found guilty.

I think he's referring to the fact that rape appears to be a massive social problem in India- since the story about the rape/murder broke, there's been a torrent of similar stories coming out. I think this might have been a watershed moment for them.

steddyeddy · 07-01-2013 04:07PM

geeky wrote: »

In bullfighting, I root for the one with horns. Every single time.

I agree after all the bull didn't choose to get in the ring. The man consented so it's his problem

MickFleetwood · 07-01-2013 04:08PM

led zeppelin aren't that great a band.

prefer The Doors immensely so.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 07-01-2013 04:11PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

nope. i looked at some of the old 'whatever the hell it was called before it was called the leaving cert' papers back when i was in school in the late 90's. much much harder than anything I was doing.

I used to notice that too when studying past exam papers, this was in the mid 00s so it was probably the papers you had done for your LC that I was looking at. If the pattern has continued it must be a total doddle all together at this stage. :pac:

Czarcasm · 07-01-2013 04:28PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

It was always dumb, Everyone just has a romantic notion of having it much harder than the present generation. If your parents still have your old school books, go to their house and have a flick through them. You'll be amazed at how embarrassingly simplistic they were.

Having almost had to coach my sister in law through secondary school, and now having a child of my own in the primary education system, I have seen how the curriculum was essentially dumbed down and jazzed up to "appeal" to children and adolescents in order to encourage them to learn and accomplish simple tasks, rather than actually challenge them to tax their brain any small bit and actually really learn something!

Most secondary school leavers nowadays barely have a grasp of the basics (reading, writing, arithmetics), and having helped out friends in third level courses studying business, economics and accountancy, to see them struggle with the most basic tasks, be it careless spelling mistakes, simple errors in addition and subtraction, etc.

And don't even get me started on having to read through reams of catscrawl handwritten thesis' - Jesus wept!

I was recently informed by their teacher that my child at six years of age had the reading comprehension of a sixteen year old. The first thing that occured to me was not that he was an exceptional reader, but that the rest of the class must be well below standard! In my opinion my child reads at the level ANY six year old should be at. My child learned their BOMDAS through Microsoft Excel so allowances could be made in that respect that not every child would have access to a computer outside school hours.

The lack of IT education in Irish schools is actually embarrassing, but that's an opinion for another thread!

/Rant.

eyescreamcone · 07-01-2013 05:23PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Having almost had to coach my sister in law through secondary school, and now having a child of my own in the primary education system, I have seen how the curriculum was essentially dumbed down and jazzed up to "appeal" to children and adolescents in order to encourage them to learn and accomplish simple tasks, rather than actually challenge them to tax their brain any small bit and actually really learn something!

Most secondary school leavers nowadays barely have a grasp of the basics (reading, writing, arithmetics), and having helped out friends in third level courses studying business, economics and accountancy, to see them struggle with the most basic tasks, be it careless spelling mistakes, simple errors in addition and subtraction, etc.

And don't even get me started on having to read through reams of catscrawl handwritten thesis' - Jesus wept!

I was recently informed by their teacher that my child at six years of age had the reading comprehension of a sixteen year old. The first thing that occured to me was not that he was an exceptional reader, but that the rest of the class must be well below standard! In my opinion my child reads at the level ANY six year old should be at. My child learned their BOMDAS through Microsoft Excel so allowances could be made in that respect that not every child would have access to a computer outside school hours.

The lack of IT education in Irish schools is actually embarrassing, but that's an opinion for another thread!

/Rant.

We don't have time for your IT mumbojumbo with all the jESUS stories on the curriculum don't you know???

eyescreamcone · 07-01-2013 05:25PM

BeerSteakBirds wrote: »

The Indians sure have kept their mouth shut about our medical treatment of women ever since their own widespread rape scandal revelations.

*unpopular opinion because of hypocritical moral relativism*

At least rape victims in India can get an abortion (if wanted)

LiamMc · 07-01-2013 08:01PM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

We don't have time for your IT mumbojumbo with all the jESUS stories on the curriculum don't you know???

Speak for yourself.

Fulton Crown · 07-01-2013 08:12PM

I believe that there is a significant rump of people in Ireland that set out to pay nothing and get /sponge as much as they can from the State.

They are adept at working the system and have all the latest gadgets / TV'S smsrt phones etc. but jib at paying the household charge or indeed any other charge.

I think Noonan was close to the truth when he said that people with Sky /UPC TV services should be able to cough up the household charge.

Unpopular ...mebbe....but ....???

Fulton Crown · 07-01-2013 08:29PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Unpopular opinion but this post is disgracful.

It's absolutely spot on pilgrim.....the man tells it as he sees it.....I would say it is very popular opinion.

Need more people like the guy Nally who topped the Frog Ward in self defence...then mebbe these savages would learn to respect the law...

RaRaRasputin · 07-01-2013 08:30PM

Larkin00 wrote: »

I think travelers are bad people by nature. Its in there genes to steal and be a general nuisance. I'm in 6th year at the moment, in my whole 6 years any traveler who has came to my school has left after there Junior Cert and were just complete trouble the whole time they were there. I've never met a decent one.

I worked in a barbers last year which was in a area full of travelers and I saw it on a daily basis. They would come in, a group of say 5, one would come up talking to me asking prices or something another would be talking to the bloke cutting hair and the others would be mooching about looking for things to rob. The bloke who owned this barber shop was considering opening a second shop in a gym near a well known halting site and was discouraged by the owner of the gym because of the trouble he himself was having with them. These are just a few of my own experiences and I'm sure i'll get the usual "there's bad people everywhere regardless", there is bad people in all ethnic groups but not to the extent of the travelers. There reputation isn't unfair its completely justified.

I don't see anything wrong with your opinion, but 6th year??? Seriously??? Good luck ireland...

Tom_Cruise · 07-01-2013 08:31PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Unpopular opinion but this post is disgracful.

It is true though.

oldyouth · 07-01-2013 08:32PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Unpopular opinion but this post is disgracful.

I don't think it is. It reflects some of my own personal experiences

steddyeddy · 07-01-2013 08:34PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

It's absolutely spot on pilgrim.....the man tells it as he sees it.....I would say it is very popular opinion.

Need more people like the guy Nally who topped the Frog Ward in self defence...then mebbe these savages would learn to respect the law...

Wait the man says travellers as a people are programmed genetically to steal. It's some of the worst tripe I have heard since south africa was ruled by racists.

Fulton Crown · 07-01-2013 08:43PM

I suppose you will say that pikeys are gentle caring people...with the menfolk moisturing every day and helping old ladies across the road ?

The women paragons of virtue and the kids well behaved with respect for authority and an insatiable thirst for knowledge ?

Tell me ....do you live in a land where there are lemonade springs and the bluebird sings on a big rock candy mountain ?

steddyeddy · 07-01-2013 08:45PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

I suppose you will say that pikeys are gentle caring people...with the menfolk moisturing every day and helping old ladies across the road ?

The women paragons of virtue and the kids well behaved with respect for authority and an insatiable thirst for knowledge ?

Tell me ....do you live in a land where there are lemonade springs and the bluebird sings on a big rock candy mountain ?

No me and my friends aren't stupid enough to generalise though.

shruikan2553 · 07-01-2013 08:48PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

I believe that there is a significant rump of people in Ireland that set out to pay nothing and get /sponge as much as they can from the State.

They are adept at working the system and have all the latest gadgets / TV'S smsrt phones etc. but jib at paying the household charge or indeed any other charge.

I think Noonan was close to the truth when he said that people with Sky /UPC TV services should be able to cough up the household charge.

Unpopular ...mebbe....but ....???

I dont know anyone who didnt pay just because they couldnt afford it, people didnt want to be charged because they happened to own a house. People can afford a something which provides a service, not throwing money into a pot and see nothing for it

Quazzie · 07-01-2013 08:50PM

I think that people who use the word "mebbe" on a regular basis should consult with a dictionary.

I also think that in most sports women should be forced to compete alongside men.

jaffacakesyum · 07-01-2013 09:02PM

Quazzie wrote: »

I also think that in most sports women should be forced to compete alongside men.

Why?

Also, I know this is an unpopular opinions thread and I'm hardly crying about it, I'm not that sensitive to the opinions posted on here and I think it's a good idea for a thread. But the "opinion" posted about Travellers is ridiculous and just shows the nature of AH. If you replaced the word 'Travellers' with 'black people' you would be banned instantly. Hell, I got banned making a post which I think has been deleted now where I was sarcastically making generalisations about black people in a response to some anti-women sh1te. Just shows you can make generalisations on AH about certain sections of society (women, Travellers) but not others.

That's my unpopular opinion maybe :pac:

oldyouth · 07-01-2013 09:11PM

My unpopular opinion is that people nowadays are too scared to say what is really on their mind and that the politically correct brigade are in the minority but they feel comfortable in expressing their viewpoint.(as is their right, of course).

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