{"id":292,"date":"2011-08-15T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-urges-calm-and-support-ahead-of-leaving-cert-results\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:59:14","slug":"crowe-urges-calm-and-support-ahead-of-leaving-cert-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-urges-calm-and-support-ahead-of-leaving-cert-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe urges calm and support ahead of Leaving Cert results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> urges calm and support ahead of Leaving Cert results<\/p>\n<p> Speaking this morning, ahead of the publication of the Leaving<br \/> Certificate results later this week, Sinn F\u00e9in Education spokesperson<br \/> Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> urged all students to remain calm and to put the exam into<br \/> context.<\/p>\n<p> The Dublin South West TD stated that \u201cthe hype around exam results time<br \/> has been intensified in the last decade. What we are now witnessing is<br \/> an educational rat-race for points to determine if a student\u2019s<br \/> application to a 3rd level course of their choice is accepted. This is<br \/> an educational pressure-cooker which must be turned down.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Leaving Cert examination and the Points system must be changed. For<br \/> instance \u00a0 continual \u00a0 assessment \u00a0should \u00a0be \u00a0introduced \u00a0in \u00a0order \u00a0to<br \/> significantly \u00a0reduce \u00a0pressure \u00a0on students. Examining a student over a<br \/> period of a couple of stressful weeks to see if they can progress to<br \/> their third level preferred course is unfair and unjustifiable. Young<br \/> people have enough pressures to cope with without the added stress of<br \/> intense examinations over a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe current Leaving Certificate is obsolete. \u00a0The education system<br \/> should be about assisting students in developing their full potential<br \/> according to their capabilities. It should not be a competition, where<br \/> students are pitted against one another for limited college places.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDisappointed students must realise that there are several other options<br \/> open to students besides the University route. The results process and<br \/> their outcome can be a difficult and highly pressurised period for many<br \/> students. I would urge students, their schoolmates, their friends and<br \/> family to engage in a supportive role during the next couple of weeks.<br \/> These exam results must be put into context, and while I wish each and<br \/> every student well, these results are by no stretch of the imagination<br \/> the be all and end all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe urges calm and support ahead of Leaving Cert results Speaking this morning, ahead of the publication of the Leaving Certificate results later this week, Sinn F\u00e9in Education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe urged all students to remain calm and to put the exam into context. The Dublin South West TD stated that \u201cthe hype around exam [&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-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}