Remove Compulsory Irish being taught in schools
Monday, April 28th, 2008I’m sick of it. It’s over. Enough with wasting of zillions each year on a lame duck. I’m sure by now you have received your ‘Preparing for National Emergencies’ handbook in the post. I got mine and read it on the jacks, fancy graphics and great print job. It got me thinking about how much of a waste of tax payer’s money it is that the government don’t own a large scale dedicated printing house and print all these things themselves and not put it out to public tender.
Then I get to halfway through the booklet and it turns into Irish and it was good thing that I was sitting down. On a toilet. So I could crap with hate and puke in the sink.
I would love to be able to speak my native language.
I wish everyone spoke it. But nobody speaks it.
In an already over burdened school system, where English language class room assistants (for foreign national students) are being cut back, its criminal to teach our children Irish. We have the most overcrowded primary classes in Europe.
I don’t know why, we study it for what? 15 years in school? Jesus Christ. My secondary school, Saint Aidan’s in Tallaght was so discriminatory that certain students were deprived of certain subjects. There were three tiers, only the top tier were taught French and Science, the others got makey-up ones like Technology. They were deprived of key subjects but of course they got to do Irish. We all did. A massive waste of time and resources. Especially for kids who could really do with a better education. I see a lad I went to school with living on the streets every time I cross the Ha’Penny bridge. The education system failed him.
The government pushed for Irish to be to recognised as an EU language. It cost the EU 30 million Euros in 2007. All government literature and street signs have to be translated into Irish. For who? I couldn’t find it online but I remember hearing a lad on Marion Finnucane pushing for the removing of Irish from schools and he said that there are more deaf or blind people in Ireland than Irish speakers. That’s a killer. Nobody speaks or understands the stuff. Yeah I know there are thousands of people who speak it, but does it warrant spending all that money? There’s a county hall in Tallaght and it says
‘County Hall Block 6′ in massive raised letters on one side then it has the same in Irish on the other side. I know how much that shit costs. It’s criminal.
I understood a few words but have no idea what this ad is about. How much does all this crap cost the State?
I have friends who pursued learning Irish after leaving school, really embraced it and they will pay the cash to send their kid’s to an Irish school. Fair play to them. They’re footing the bill. So let’s remove Irish from normal national schools. If you want to learn it you can choose to. But it shouldn’t be compulsory. It has no practical worth. A fair percentage of school children are non nationals now so it’s pointless teaching them a useless language.
There’s a few good points about it all boards.ie. A recurring point is that in the 13-14 years of compulsory learning, very few become proficient but in 5 years of French or German you can nail the language. I have taught myself two languages since 2003.
So fuck Irish in the ear. It all comes down to pride I suppose but I have no major pride about being Irish. There I said it. The Potato Famine nearly wiped an island surrounded by fish. We have no culture, drinking doesn’t count as a national culture. Our world embassador Bono is a gaylord. Irish children’s televison was woeful. People die in hospital waiting rooms but there’s enough cash to translate Power Rangers into Irish for TG4. So many things.
Remove compulsory Irish from schools


























