This is a political drive by vested interests including teacher unions trying to preserve jobs in unpopular subjects and by opposition politicians try to score points against the SNP. Neither really cares about the pupils or learning.
From a non-partisan Irish perspective, here’s what forcing all pupils to study too many subjects at the same time can mean:
Secondary students are confronted with “too much content, too many subjects”, and are not getting enough time and space for genuine learning or reflection, according to school heads.
The National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD) said that Irish students were “over-schooled and under-educated”.
They were not encouraged to work on their own initiative and their problem-solving capacity was being reduced year by year, it said, in a devastating analysis of the “failure” of the curriculum to meet the needs of all young people.
It claimed that the present system favoured those who could supplement the work of the school through grinds, coaching, etc. These students had ‘cracked’ the system because they could afford to pay for the extras such as grinds.
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