Support for Gaelscoileanna on English
Such policies of total immersion in Irish have been the subject of significant debate in the past two years, because of a dispute between parents and management at a Kerry Gaelscoil where English was not taught to junior infants.
But despite Ms Hanafin’s indications that she favours the teaching of basic English literacy from a child’s first days in school, a number of models of provision have been proposed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) in its advice to her.
