Home-schooled Leaving Cert student fights exclusion from calculated grades

Elijah Burke claims the exclusion of home school students from the calculated grades process breaches his rights under the Constitution and the Education (Welfare) Act 2000. File image

A home-schooled Leaving Cert student is seeking leave to bring a High Court case aimed at requiring the Department of Education to urgently consider his application for calculated grades.

Elijah Burke claims the exclusion of home school students from the calculated grades process breaches his rights under the Constitution and the Education (Welfare) Act 2000, and is arbitrary, unfair, discriminatory and unreasonable.