I love how it’s all the EUs fault 
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History removed as a core subject from the junior cert, a very bad move in my opinion.
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I agree, everyone should learn about what the real nazis did, the famine and the irish revolutions.
That’s insane. Slavery, civil rights, wars, prevention of wars. It would be very difficult to harness and build on the little that is left of Irish cultural identity without knowing it’s history. I wonder is this something we’re seeing in other education systems in other Euro states? We’re almost language-less, which itself is a disgrace when it’s the 8th oldest language on earth that is still spoken with hebrew being number 1. We could learn a lot from Israel who took a language that hadn’t been spoke in 2000 years to 55% using it as their native language.
I just did a Google there and it was reinstated as compulsory for junior in 2021. I think it had been removed as compulsory in 2018.
I don’t think Israel is comparable on the language front for many reasons.
Read this this morning on the RTE website.
This is moronic. SSG was built in the 1980s at the height of mall culture. When it opened it raised eyebrows for opening on Sundays. Romantic Ireland indeed.
When I/we did leaving cert history back in the 90s it started in 1870 and finished in 1960
Thats all history though?
I read his post as a wokie attack on irishness
What was there pre-shopping center?
Just asked my daughter its compulsory alright
Immediately before it there was a surface car park, the Dandelion market, Sinnotts pub and a massive ESB substation.
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Yes the rest of his post was garbage alright. And I learned they already corrected the compulsory history thing and I was wrong about that, so I suppose it was all garbage after all.
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Yes a poor decision but back as you say. I believe relatively speaking a higher % of Leaving Cert students study history now than 30 years ago.
Not enough pride in the jersey glas.
Heading into chapters bookshop then coffee and kale now guys
Ill keep you posted
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