Beating the system

I WONDERED as I read Terry Prone’s defence of the Leaving Cert (Irish Examiner, June 9) if it was an excerpt from a Dickens’ novel?

Wed, 11 Jun, 2003 - 01:00

It summed up my experience of secondary education in the mid-‘70s. The pail was filled, but how the system quenched the fire!

Jim Jackman,

16, Park Drive Court,

Castleknock,

Dublin 15

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