{"id":417,"date":"2012-06-14T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/parents-should-contact-sec-and-register-complaints-on-higher-leaving-cert-maths-exam-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:39:37","slug":"parents-should-contact-sec-and-register-complaints-on-higher-leaving-cert-maths-exam-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/parents-should-contact-sec-and-register-complaints-on-higher-leaving-cert-maths-exam-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents should contact SEC and register complaints on Higher Leaving Cert Maths exam \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #2f2f2f; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Parents should contact SEC and register complaints on Higher Leaving Cert Maths exam \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<br \/> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has encouraged teachers and the parents of children who are critical of this week\u2019s Leaving Cert Higher Level Maths paper to contact the State Exam\u2019s Commission and register their complaint.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThere has been widespread criticism of the Higher Leaving Cert Maths Exam with parents and teachers questioning the fairness of the paper\u2019s content.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cIn this the first year of the new Project Maths syllabus, which is supposed to encourage students to take higher maths, it seems the exam paper contained serious flaws. The wording of some of the questions used terminology that was unduly complicated and the syllabus that had been taught in schools was not reflected throughout the paper.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cTeachers and parents who have concerns about this exam should register their views with the State Exam\u2019s Commission and insist their complaint is logged. This is important in order to ensure there is an impetus on the part of the Commission to take on part the views of students who sat the test and to make the necessary improvements.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Parents wishing to contact the State Exam\u2019s Commission can do so by ringing 090-6442700; by writing to the State Examinations Commission, Cornamaddy, Athlone, Co. Westmeath. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents should contact SEC and register complaints on Higher Leaving Cert Maths exam \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has encouraged teachers and the parents of children who are critical of this week\u2019s Leaving Cert Higher Level Maths paper to contact the State Exam\u2019s Commission and register their complaint. Deputy Crowe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}