Seanad debates
Wednesday, 11 December 2002
Primary Education: Motion.
We need to look at small schools and at one teacher schools. When the Minister for Health and Children was Opposition spokesperson on education in 1997, he gave a pledge before the general election that he would ensure all one teacher schools remained open. While that might sound good in theory, I have great difficulty with it. I hear stories of teachers in one teacher schools with only three or four pupils in a class and they might also have a resource teacher. Colleagues of mine in an urban school in Carlow have had 35 pupils in a class. There is no equality of treatment in that regard.
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