Visiting Minister Hanafin

cossyx

Hey, I was just wondering is anyone else going up to meet Minister Hanafin in July?..My principal rang yesterday and a few students from our school are going to the dail and apparently students from all around are going..to talk about revamping the Leaving Cert or something!:p

fionated7

im not going but id love to tell her a thing or two!

lemansky

fionated7 wrote:

im not going but id love to tell her a thing or two!

Wouldn't we all:D

Haven't a Clue

Yeah, she's encouraged students to e-mail her too. I say fair play to her for listening to the students and not the teachers.

fionated7

yeah she encourages e-mails but does she reply?

a mate of mine e-mailed her last year and got no reply. even an acknowledgement of receiving it would be something..

saying that she did get an A1 in the subject she was complaining about.. hmm

JC 2K3

I'm a cynical cúnt, but that just looks like a publicity stunt to me.

fionated7

of course its for publicity, she is a fianna fail minister!!

lemansky

Its well a publicity stunt!She knows exactly what'll be said to her...she doesn't need to organise this or invite e-mails.The opinions on the leaving are well known so frankly she's just trying to waste everybody's time.
Besides I think it should stay the way it is because if we had to suffer both English papers on one day,then so should everybody else!:)

JC 2K3

Oddly enough, when Mary Hanafin ran the National Children's Strategy like 6/7 years ago, we all had to send letters to her and I was selected to go. My letter was quoted in the little booklet you got there:

"Children should have a say in the way they are taught"

cossyx

I kind of agreed to go without thinking about it, now I think it's going to be a waste of time she knows whats going to be said she has surely heard it all before..definately a publicity stunt!