Teachers are furious as cuts hit students’ prospects

IN our school we have Leaving Cert Applied (LCA) and the Junior Cert school programme along with the traditional Leaving and Junior certificates.

Our students will lose their book rental scheme through which they paid €70 for a year’s books as against the full cost for a set of more than €300.

The cut of €159 per LCA student means the ability of schools to provide an effective Leaving Cert applied programme will be greatly reduced.