Mr. Michael Parsons:

I feel there is a place extra on the curriculum. The new junior certificate reforms allow for that possibility but there is also a need for extracurricular activities where an insert - something that is exciting from outside - is used. I mean no disrespect to very good teaching but, and this may be a bad analogy, one needs the dirt in an oyster to produce a pearl. Sometimes we need some outside agency to further stimulate things.