Modern languages in primary schools cut

[amsterdemmetje]

If you marry a foreigner its a lot easier . My 11 year old daughter speaks Dutch to her mum and English to me,she also speaks a dialect of dutch called Limburgs which she speaks to her grandparents in Holland. its amazing sometimes to see her switch from each language without batting an eyelid.

[irishpurplerevolution]

Spot on, jack white respond to above or is it Sean o faoithe?!

[GrainneDee]

The cutting of modern languages in primary school must one of the most shortsighted policies in the budget. The 2.5 million euro that the scheme cost will not be saved but transfered to another area of the dept. and some of the teachers
involved ( part timers) will end up on the dole making this cut a net cost for the dept.

I didn't even know they taught modern languages in primary schools, apart from extra classes outside school hours.

[Cruimh]

News to me that primary schools did modern languages. None of my four have done it, there is an after school club, but the parents pay for it...!

It was a pilot scheme

Language Teaching in Primary Schools to be Abolished | Money Guide Ireland

[Riadach]

€800 Million per annum is spent teaching Irish in Primary & Post-Primary Schools.

A further €150-200M per annum is spent on promoting Irish, a hatful of quangos, translation services, Third Level etc.

So the 2010-2030 Irish Language Strategy commits €20 BILLION of taxpayers money with the stated aim to have 250,000 speaking Irish as their first language by 2030, a mere 5% of the population.

Why is there no referendum on this?

That is not the reason why Irish is taught in school.

[Telemachus]

€800 Million per annum is spent teaching Irish in Primary & Post-Primary Schools.

A further €150-200M per annum is spent on promoting Irish, a hatful of quangos, translation services, Third Level etc.

So the 2010-2030 Irish Language Strategy commits €20 BILLION of taxpayers money with the stated aim to have 250,000 speaking Irish as their first language by 2030, a mere 5% of the population.

Why is there no referendum on this?

We had a plebicite on this back in the thirties establishing Irish as the first language of the state. So things like this come from that.

About time they started to put some money into de-anglicising this country.

[Cruimh]

We had a plebicite on this back in the thirties establishing Irish as the first language of the state. So things like this come from that.

About time they started to put some money into de-anglicising this country.

1930s ..... so writ in tablet of stone.

De-anglicising the state in an anglo-driven world - sound thinking.

[EndDiddlyaism]

We had a plebicite on this back in the thirties establishing Irish as the first language of the state. So things like this come from that.

About time they started to put some money into de-anglicising this country.

Not many living Irish citizens voted on this and, even so, it's not like achieving 47,000 (or 83,000 taking official government figures) Irish speakers is laudable after 90 years of compulsion.

Let the people CHOOSE - if they CHOOSE to 'de-anglicise this country' (a slightly xenophobic concept), I will abide by their decision.

[Nemesiscorporation]

The cutting of modern languages in primary school must one of the most shortsighted policies in the budget. The 2.5 million euro that the scheme cost will not be saved but transfered to another area of the dept. and some of the teachers
involved ( part timers) will end up on the dole making this cut a net cost for the dept.

Stupid is the wrong term.

This is deliberate sabotage of the education of the next generation.

[cytex]

Not many living Irish citizens voted on this and, even so, it's not like achieving 47,000 (or 83,000 taking official government figures) Irish speakers is laudable after 90 years of compulsion.

Let the people CHOOSE - if they CHOOSE to 'de-anglicise this country' (a slightly xenophobic concept), I will abide by their decision.

Ya see the problem with that is that over 1 million people of non school goers showed some affiliation with the language in the census (not saying they all speak it) so if a party were to bring this up and try to get it abolished they theoretically could alienate a quarter of the population where the partys that support the language could theoretically pick up this support now name one party that would want to risk that.