Document suggested calculated grades would see some schools 'thrown under the bus'

Freddie Sherry’s case is the lead challenge of up to 30 separate actions arising from the calculated grades process, introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A draft document circulated by the director of the Leaving Cert calculated grades office referred to “negative consequences” of excluding historical school data from a calculated grades model as including “better-performing disadvantaged schools also thrown under the bus”, the High Court has heard.

The reference was made in what Andrea Feeney, director of the calculated grades office, says was a “brain-storming” draft document circulated by her on August 18 last, days before the Cabinet approved exclusion of the historical school data from the process.