Die Schulleiter wollen keine irische Ausnahmeverantwortung aufgrund der „feindlichen Interaktionen“ mit den Eltern
https://www.thejournal.ie/highest-number-of-irish-language-exemptions-ever-granted-6824779-Sep2025/
Von Banania2020
Die Schulleiter wollen keine irische Ausnahmeverantwortung aufgrund der „feindlichen Interaktionen“ mit den Eltern
https://www.thejournal.ie/highest-number-of-irish-language-exemptions-ever-granted-6824779-Sep2025/
Von Banania2020
10 Kommentare
If only there was a simple solution to this problem.
It should honestly be optional full stop. I wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood and was allowed to struggle all through primary and secondary school because I didn’t meet the criteria for an exemption.
Edit: And the fact that I didn’t have a decent Irish mark also severely limited my choice of college, which I believe is DEEPLY unfair.
In my opinion there shouldn’t be exemptions. This is the home country of the language it lives or dies depending on us speaking it. Reform how it’s taught is the best option
Around 10 to 17% of children are dyslexic. Maybe you should untie Irish from universities. They need exemptions so that they can have a future. We don’t throw them into the ditch anymore and call them dumb because we’re modern we have science and we understand how these children learn and for a lot of them a second language requirement will limit their future opportunities. Personally, I think that it’s a disgrace that there is no additional needs schools, and that we are failing this population of kids. I find the Irish have a very low understanding of special needs, the country needs to elevate an educational system to understand this population and do a better job educating them
Should be an optional subject after primary school. Should be reforms on how it is taught in primary and secondary school to make children want to choose it. In fairness apart from watching TG4 and a few niche jobs there’s no use for it once finished school.
It should be a mandatory subject to Leaving Cert level for all. That being said, they should overhaul how it’s taught and it shouldn’t be a prerequisite for any college course except for courses that are taught through Irish at any point.
I remember clearly in second year when a few of my fellow students were told they had exemptions (I think they were born in the UK). The absolute look of glee in their faces. Everyone else was jealous! Keep it mandatory for all so that everyone can learn to despise the language!
Ireland is very funny to me, fiercely proud of it’s national identity yet the second your own language comes up you’ll find every argument under the sun to stand against teaching it and ignore that fact that only a few miles over the Irish sea Wales exists and that most of these arguments were made when we started teaching it and have nearly all proved to be utter bollocks and teaching the native language from early years all the way through to 16 is nearly always beneficial to students.
Mandatory Irish sucks. The whole system of marking is pivoted around this, best 6 of 7 subjects, special points for Irish (if that’s still a thing for third level?).
We’ve had decades of expenditure on mandatory Irish and look at the results for the money spent and the impact of homework, pressure on students to study something which most have no love or use for.
You could make the same argument for any other subject to be mandatory e.g. art. It’s an abuse of power and lobbyism.
Rising exemptions are a valid response to dealing with something which should not be in place.
There needs to be reform in how it’s taught. The south has been a Republic since the 30s and we’ve done fuck all to help revive the language