{"id":287,"date":"2011-08-05T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/class-size-increase-another-fine-gaellabour-u-turn-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T10:41:56","slug":"class-size-increase-another-fine-gaellabour-u-turn-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/class-size-increase-another-fine-gaellabour-u-turn-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Class size increase another Fine Gael\/Labour U-turn \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Class size increase another Fine Gael\/Labour U-turn \u2013 Crowe<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has described the<br \/>\u00a0 government decision to increase class sizes as another U-turn from Fine<br \/>\u00a0 Gael and the Labour Party which is based on meeting EU\/IMF targets<br \/>\u00a0 regardless of the social consequences for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Speaking today Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cThis cut represents another U-turn from Fine Gael and Labour who when<br \/>\u00a0 in opposition argued correctly that larger class sizes not only affect<br \/>\u00a0 the quality of teaching but make it more difficult to concentrate on<br \/>\u00a0 children with special needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cThis proposal comes at a time when the government is slashing special<br \/>\u00a0 needs assistants.\u00a0 We already have some of largest class sizes in Europe<br \/>\u00a0 with 100,000 in classes of more than 30 pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cLarge class sizes have, in the past, resulted in pupils leaving school<br \/>\u00a0 without basic skills like being able to read or write.\u00a0 They also<br \/>\u00a0 increase the disadvantage already felt by children of lower socio<br \/>\u00a0 economic backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cThis is a bad decision which is based on meeting EU\/IMF targets<br \/>\u00a0 regardless of the social consequences for our children who deserve so<br \/>\u00a0 much better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class size increase another Fine Gael\/Labour U-turn \u2013 Crowe \u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has described the\u00a0 government decision to increase class sizes as another U-turn from Fine\u00a0 Gael and the Labour Party which is based on meeting EU\/IMF targets\u00a0 regardless of the social consequences for children. \u00a0 Speaking today 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-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}