School cuts lead to troubled teenagers

I WISH to endorse Harry Burke’s letter (“Scurrilous’ move to increase pupil/teacher ratio”, October 28). What sense he makes with so many children being brought up in one-parent families and troubled homes.

This is extremely difficult for any parent and if they are not going to get some help in our schools, may God help them and the rest of us who will be at the receiving end of what they dish out as troubled teenagers later in life.

Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe doesn’t have to go into a school and deal with disruptive children while at the same time trying to teach others who have no English. Such is the case nowadays with so many non-Irish people living here who are trying to learn basic English.