Leaving Cert reforms ‘will hurt DEIS schools, but benefit those in private education’, teacher warns

Planned new Leaving Cert reforms will affect students in disadvantaged schools while benefiting those whose parents can afford to pay for private education, the ASTI conference has been told.

Science teacher Michael McGrath, from Dungarvan, Co Waterford, said the reforms put forward by the Department of Education would present a challenge for voluntary secondary schools, but DEIS schools would be “wiped out”.

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On the other hand private and grind schools would benefit, he told delegates at the annual conference of the Asti second-leve...
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