Educating students for the real world

With the latest announcement of jobs in PayPal, and the fact half of the number are imported people with language skills, I would like to ask the teachers running our Dáil why we are not teaching kids these languages by now?

Educating students for the real world
Mon, 23 Jul, 2012 - 01:00
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This jobs for the boys/girls culture, has cost us again.

Teaching Irish and religion benefits no-one, and we are the only tiny country in the world speaking Irish and barely practising religion.

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