Former top Leaving Cert student: System brainwashes us
As almost 119,000 students begin Junior and Leaving Certificate exams this morning, Brian O’Flynn says his seven A1s in 2013 have not given him a dream life and he is now effectively stuck in a course he is no longer interested in.
“Our system pressures teenagers, who have little to no experience outside the walls of their local classroom, into choosing their lifelong vocations before they even know themselves”, the ex-student of Glanmire Community College in Cork writes in today’s Irish Examiner.
