Comments on: Conor Lenihan’s ‘Facist’ Furore and Education Cuts http://www.irishelection.com/2008/10/conor-lenihans-facist-furore-and-education-cuts/ Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: EddieL http://www.irishelection.com/2008/10/conor-lenihans-facist-furore-and-education-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-98541 EddieL Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:04:53 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/?p=3929#comment-98541 Above: "Tralee with 180+ foreign born students set to lose 4 out of 6 language support teachers." What has Tralee got to support its own not to mind 180+ foreign born students. How long more can we continue to imagine that we are the most generous nation in the world? Above: “Tralee with 180+ foreign born students set to lose 4 out of 6 language support teachers.”
What has Tralee got to support its own not to mind 180+ foreign born students. How long more can we continue to imagine that we are the most generous nation in the world?

]]> By: Niall http://www.irishelection.com/2008/10/conor-lenihans-facist-furore-and-education-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-98529 Niall Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:18:46 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/?p=3929#comment-98529 "It paints politicians as insular and the media as the kind of idiots who follow this nonsense slavishly." Well, our politicians are insular and the media is made up out of idiots, so that probably makes for a photo-realistic painting, you know, provided that the artist manages to capture the idiocy of the politicians and the insularity of the media while he's at it. “It paints politicians as insular and the media as the kind of idiots who follow this nonsense slavishly.”

Well, our politicians are insular and the media is made up out of idiots, so that probably makes for a photo-realistic painting, you know, provided that the artist manages to capture the idiocy of the politicians and the insularity of the media while he’s at it.

]]> By: Green Ink http://www.irishelection.com/2008/10/conor-lenihans-facist-furore-and-education-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-98395 Green Ink Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:11:01 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/?p=3929#comment-98395 Ah, as long as the real issue gets lost in the furore. That's the real point: increased class sizes and the loss of English support teachers mean that the most vunerable children are going to get left behind for the next 2-3 years (yeah right, does anyone really believe Education cuts will be rolled back in that timeframe?): those with learning difficulties and those who don't speak English as a first language. They can't get those years of falling behind made up to them again: they're academically fucked, and it's this government that's doing the fucking. Ah, as long as the real issue gets lost in the furore. That’s the real point: increased class sizes and the loss of English support teachers mean that the most vunerable children are going to get left behind for the next 2-3 years (yeah right, does anyone really believe Education cuts will be rolled back in that timeframe?): those with learning difficulties and those who don’t speak English as a first language. They can’t get those years of falling behind made up to them again: they’re academically fucked, and it’s this government that’s doing the fucking.

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