2% of you faking it?

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According to figures release by RTE, approximately 4% of you aren’t sitting the Irish exam this summer because of a disability… this article in The Irish Times suggests there are some of you that are cheating the system and getting out of Irish on the grounds that you have a learning disability…

Now of course there’s nothing wrong with having a learning disability… and certainly nothing wrong with getting an exemption if you have difficulty learning because of that disability…

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However 2% of the 4% of you that get an exemption in Irish because of a ‘learning disability’, do other languages like French and German. That disability doesn’t seem to come in to play with languages other than Irish 😉

So the stats would suggest that 2% of you non-irish exam sitters are faking it or maybe not faking it, but certainly exaggerating it. Your disability might exist… but you’re using it as an excuse to ditch Irish. Most importantly,  you’re sitting other languages despite having a disability which prevents you from learning one particular language…

It just doesn’t add up… no doubt there are genuine cases, but over 1300 students who are exempt from Irish on the grounds of having a learning disability take other languages… figure that one out…

5 thoughts on “2% of you faking it?”

  5. Emer

    I think it is ridiculous that the system will allow these people to do this. They need a more meticulous system of how they judge who is able/unable as it isn’t fair on all the rest of us left slugging it out when the Irish course requires extensive knowledge and a lot of time required to do this. If these people drop Irish it should be made out why they can still do French/German.. etc. Despite the fact that our education system is quite questionable there are some things like this that you would really think are important.. So much for preserving the heritage of the Irish culture

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