Parents are seeking cuts to the curriculum for next year’s State exam students and changes in how they are assessed because of the disruption to education being caused by Covid-19. This year, the coronavirus pandemic saw the Junior Cycle written tests cancelled and the Leaving Cert replaced with a system of calculated grades. Instead of the Junior Cycle June exams, teachers prepared their own assessments for pupils, while teachers also predicted Leaving Cert grades, based on what they believed a pupil would have achieved if they had sat the exams in June. “This will potentially have an even greater stressful effect than closure had on 2020 exam students with disruption mid-cycle. Ms Fanning also noted that the council had emphatically supported reforms in the structures and processes around both Junior Cycle and Senior Cycle and adjustments to traditional practices and exam method.

Source: Irish Independent July 02, 2020 14:03 UTC