NCCA failed, students didn't!

[moghroth]

I am calling for an immediate meeting of the Council of State to expidite an immediate public enquiry into the total and systemic failure of the National Council for Curriculum and Assesment. I warned them that when they introduced the usage of calculators into our schools then within one cycle, their would be complete failure. They choose to ignore that warning and next year I predict a 100% increase in failure rates, This work must be done immediately and the NCCA dissolved and replaced with Corás Oideachas Dúchas na hÉireann. We will resolve this curriculum deficiency, before the commencement of the of the next school year.

Contact details may be obtained through a personal message.

[toxic avenger]

I am calling for an immediate meeting of the Council of State to expidite an immediate public enquiry into the total and systemic failure of the National Council for Curriculum and Assesment. I warned them that when they introduced the usage of calculators into our schools then within one cycle, their would be complete failure. They choose to ignore that warning and next year I predict a 100% increase in failure rates, This work must be done immediately and the NCCA dissolved and replaced with Corás Oideachas Dúchas na hÉireann. We will resolve this curriculum deficiency, before the commencement of the of the next school year.

Contact details may be obtained through a personal message.

If it gets as bad as the spelling and grammar crisis, you're right to be worried.

[CookieMonster]

I am calling for an immediate meeting of the Council of State to expidite an immediate public enquiry into the total and systemic failure of the National Council for Curriculum and Assesment. I warned them that when they introduced the usage of calculators into our schools then within one cycle, their would be complete failure. They choose to ignore that warning and next year I predict a 100% increase in failure rates, This work must be done immediately and the NCCA dissolved and replaced with Corás Oideachas Dúchas na hÉireann. We will resolve this curriculum deficiency, before the commencement of the of the next school year.

Contact details may be obtained through a personal message.

If it gets as bad as the spelling and grammar crisis, you're right to be worried.

w@ sp n gramA crsis exacty? idk wotU r tlkN bout, evrytings fyn.

[moghroth]

I am calling for an immediate meeting of the Council of State to expidite an immediate public enquiry into the total and systemic failure of the National Council for Curriculum and Assesment. I warned them that when they introduced the usage of calculators into our schools then within one cycle, their would be complete failure. They choose to ignore that warning and next year I predict a 100% increase in failure rates, This work must be done immediately and the NCCA dissolved and replaced with Corás Oideachas Dúchas na hÉireann. We will resolve this curriculum deficiency, before the commencement of the of the next school year.

Contact details may be obtained through a personal message.

If it gets as bad as the spelling and grammar crisis, you're right to be worried.

w@ sp n gramA crsis exacty? idk wotU r tlkN bout, evrytings fyn.

Sorry I was so angry with the Head of the NCCA, on TV, spouting absolute diatribe. They have been having been promising to do something about the increasing problem in mathematical education since their inception. We predated them by at least eight years, but because we opposed the planned introduction of calculators we were black listed by the Department of Education. We are an indigenous educational organisation and took great care to insure that our work conformed with the requirements under article 1, that education must be de réir dúchas is gnás ár sinsear. We do not suggest that subjects such as mathematics are necessarily taught through Irish, but the R&D must be done to bring any new knowledge into the dúchas so that it can be re-expressed in a way appropriate to our culture.

We assert that by following Howard Gardiner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences the NCCA failed in their duty to be dílis to Article 1, and therefore should be immediately disbanded by Córas Oideachas Dúthasach na hÉireann.

Interestingly we had been in contact with Howard Gardiner, personally and he suggested that our approach could fill the gaping void in the centre of his system with knowledge. Of course because the NCCA and it's Academic advisors have not yet seen in in a book or an academic paper, they are ignorent. I mean this literally. They have no knowledge, and they have absolutely no manners. They must learn that real knowledge, pure knowledge is not to be found in books, it comes from the ?úchas, mar is ?úchas fód feasa. Genius is the foundation of Knowledge, and we have discovered a way to bridge the gap between o and 1, and resolve the digital rust caused by Boolean Logic. This rust has now begun to invade the minds of our students.
slán go deo

[toxic avenger]

I thought Gardiner was dead. Anyway he's only a variation on a theme of Spearman's 'g', and his evidence for a distinction between them was always ropey, for a number of reasons. There is no essential distinction between those multiple intelligences and subsets of general intelligence. Also, people can change and adapt, basing anything on perceived aptitude might wrongly condemn such people to a box for life.

[NotDevsSon]

I am calling for an immediate meeting of the Council of State to expidite an immediate public enquiry into the total and systemic failure of the National Council for Curriculum and Assesment. I warned them that when they introduced the usage of calculators into our schools then within one cycle, their would be complete failure. They choose to ignore that warning and next year I predict a 100% increase in failure rates, This work must be done immediately and the NCCA dissolved and replaced with Corás Oideachas Dúchas na hÉireann. We will resolve this curriculum deficiency, before the commencement of the of the next school year.

Contact details may be obtained through a personal message.

The Council of State has no role in public enquiries, or anything else. It is simply the advisory body that advises the President.

[TheBear]

Sorry, you're saying that failure rates increased within one cycle after the introduction of calculators in schools?

Strange, as I used a calculator in school 10 years ago. A very long cycle?

Also, I've taken the block capitals out of the title, and moved this to the Education forum, where it belongs.

[eyeSpy]

i used them in the leaving 14 years ago and probably for the junior cert as well 16 years ago.

[fool]

Sorry, you're saying that failure rates increased within one cycle after the introduction of calculators in schools?

Strange, as I used a calculator in school 10 years ago. A very long cycle?

Also, I've taken the block capitals out of the title, and moved this to the Education forum, where it belongs.

i used them in the leaving 14 years ago and probably for the junior cert as well 16 years ago.

Come on guys, you can't blame mogroth for not being able to count, they used calculators in his school.

[moghroth]

Actually fool we didn't. I happen to belong to the last class that did the primary certificate examination, and I have one more certification than all the rest of ye, and that is a certification in sums. When I had finished the re-summing of myself, I was down in Tralee on a bit of a poet's quest, and I went into the bar which was across the street from where the shop was. As a young lad we had no calculators and my mother insisted that the customer was always right, and must be given the correct change. She did everything in her head, but sometimes being younger I resorted to finger figuring. Thumb's up.

In the bar I was talking with the owner, I was in fact looking for the poet's corner, and mentioned the simple sums project and gave him one of our techniques, he said that the used to do something similar at school, but with little changes, of course, that's where the genius is strongest.