Thinking it through
Your editorial justification for reform is built in part upon vague statements, such as: “Tech-savvy teenagers, used to choice and independence, too often sit passively.”
This sort of hazy justification for reform is dangerous. The Junior Cycle was partly introduced using this sort of “evidence”. It led to the promotion of a top-down, rigid educational orthodoxy. This in turn led to the introduction of time and resource-wasteful CBAs , dumbed-down syllabuses, the disastrously stupid decision to drop history and geography as core subjects, and the incredibly costly belief that teachers needed to be told how to teach.
Call for Leaving Cert reform, if you must, but at least be clear why, as otherwise you run the risk of implementing prodigal, and at times ridiculous, changes. – Yours, etc,‘I’m not weird. He is.’ Why does one word rattle Donald Trump so much?MOST READ ‘She couldn’t have done better’: Leaving Cert student with maximum points misses out on college course due to lottery
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