Calls growing for Leaving Cert 2021 to be cancelled as TD warns of huge mental health risks for students
Posted in Teaching on January 6th, 2021 by steve“This year’s Leaving Cert should be cancelled as a result of Covid-19, with all students allowed to access their first or second-choice college courses, a Solidarity–People Before Profit TD has insisted. Mick Barry said today that running the exams – a rite of passage for thousands of young people across the country every year – risks ‘the potential for an unacceptable level of mental health pressures on a large number of leaving cert students’ …” (more)
[Donal MacNamee, Irish Mirror, 6 January]