Internal assessment cannot be trusted

I have to take issue with your editorial (Irish Examiner December 3) with regard to the industrial action taken by the two post-primary teacher unions, the ASTI and the TUI.

Taking industrial action is a democratic action, not undemocratic as your editorial states.

The ASTI and TUI did engage in the policymaking process which concluded in 2012 with agreement from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and Department of Education and Skills (DES) that the new Junior Cycle would be externally assessed.