{"id":1889,"date":"2022-09-15T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/urgent-clarity-needed-on-junior-cert-results\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:51:31","slug":"urgent-clarity-needed-on-junior-cert-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/urgent-clarity-needed-on-junior-cert-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent clarity needed on Junior Cert results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Students will understandably feel abandoned by the Government<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon has called on the Minister for Education to end ongoing uncertainty over when this year\u2019s Junior Certificate results will be issued.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Gannon, the party\u2019s Education spokesperson, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thousands of students who sat exams in June are fully entitled to know when their results will be available. This year\u2019s Junior Cert cohort suffered severe disruption to their education during Covid-19 and this was the first time in three years that traditional exams were able to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the long-term, these results will have limited impact on final outcomes for students. However, they still have a right to have their results given to them in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it extraordinary that the State Examinations Commission is not even in a position to confirm a date for when they will be available this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe uncertainty is leading to high levels of anxiety for many students, particularly those in fifth year who may be depending on their results to determine if they should choose higher or ordinary level subjects for the Leaving Certificate cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents should expect some form of competence from the Department of Education and from a Minister who seems to be operating on the basis that timelines for schools no longer matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who sat their Junior Cert exams this year will understandably feel they are not a priority and must simply take their place in the queue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of messaging leads to a sense of abandonment and students may arrive at the conclusion that if the Department doesn\u2019t care, why should they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<br \/>\nSeptember 15, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will understandably feel abandoned by the Government Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon has called on the Minister for Education to end ongoing uncertainty over when this year\u2019s Junior Certificate results will be issued. Deputy Gannon, the party\u2019s Education spokesperson, said: \u201cThe thousands of students who sat exams in June are fully entitled to know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,316,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-gary-gannon","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Urgent clarity needed on Junior Cert results - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/urgent-clarity-needed-on-junior-cert-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urgent clarity needed on Junior Cert results - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Students will understandably feel abandoned by the Government Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon has called on the Minister for Education to end ongoing uncertainty over when this year\u2019s Junior Certificate results will be issued. 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