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Article: Irish schools forced to teach English despite big outcry.(FRONT PAGE)
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2007
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Byline: Katherine Donnelly
EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin is going ahead with a controversial directive that will force all-Irish primary schools to teach English from the start of the second term of junior infants.
The minister plans to introduce the change - in the face of continuing protest from Irish language organisations - in the forthcoming school year.
Gaelscoileanna with a long tradition of not introducing English until senior infants or first class, will have an exemption until 2008/09. The change was prompted by a controversy at a gaelscoil in Tralee, Co Kerry, where parents objected to the withdrawal of English language tuition for ...