Seanad debates
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Special Educational Needs: Statements
It is very important that we get back into the classroom and question vogue and trendy items on which a great deal of money was spent but for which, as the assessment study shows, the results are not impressive. Moreover, as the international ratings show, we are declining in the league tables from a position gained by a system that was our pride. There is much work to be done to refocus Irish education from the excesses of the Celtic tiger era, its managerialism and expenditure on things that ultimately had little to do with education and to bring the focus back onto pupils. I commend the Minister and Minister of State for anything they can do in that regard.
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