{"id":1130,"date":"2020-08-11T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/minister-needs-to-reassure-students-after-predicted-grades-debacle-in-scotland\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:50:08","slug":"minister-needs-to-reassure-students-after-predicted-grades-debacle-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/minister-needs-to-reassure-students-after-predicted-grades-debacle-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister needs to reassure students after predicted grades debacle in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gannon TD, Social Democrats spokesperson on Education, today called on the Minister for Education to reassure Leaving Cert students that the predictive grades debacle in Scotland could not happen here.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Gannon said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents and parents in Ireland will have watched the controversy over predictive grades in Scotland with understandable concern. We are just weeks away from the Leaving Cert results being issued and the Minister needs to ensure that a similar problem will not arise with the grading system being adopted in Ireland for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Scotland, pupils from disadvantaged areas were disproportionately affected when 134,000 results were downgraded \u2013 nearly a quarter of the total \u2013 resulting in an embarrassing but necessary u-turn today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo student should ever be put at an educational disadvantage because of their economic background and Minister Foley must make sure that this could never happen here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith September 7 fast approaching, the Minister needs to reveal the modelling system that will be used for predictive grading for our Leaving Certificate students, who have suffered enough stress and anxiety this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 11, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gannon TD, Social Democrats spokesperson on Education, today called on the Minister for Education to reassure Leaving Cert students that the predictive grades debacle in Scotland could not happen here. 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