Anger at cut in language teachers [Independent.ie]
- Published: 01 September 2009
A DISADVANTAGED school with more than 100 foreign students has had its language support teachers halved because of Government cutbacks.
The secondary school in Coolcotts in Wexford is just one example of schools in the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) scheme affected by cost savings in education.
Yesterday, the president of the Irish Primary Principals Network, Pat Goff, who is also principal of the 530-pupil school at Coolcotts, said that although DEIS schools were spared the worsening of the teacher ratio and the withdrawal of the book grant, they didn't escape the axe altogether.
"We have pupils from 27 nationalities in our school -- 100 from overseas, but we have lost two of the four language support teachers we had last year."
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