Letter to Editor: Show the darker side of exams

I recall that many years ago at the start of a new school year certain students who had failed their previous year’s Intercert French exams used to call out vigorously the phrase “F for French” so as to annoy the French teacher who had previously taught them.

Letter to Editor: Show the darker side of exams

I recall that many years ago at the start of a new school year certain students who had failed their previous year’s Intercert French exams used to call out vigorously the phrase “F for French” so as to annoy the French teacher who had previously taught them.

But this rather sadder and somewhat darker side of school exams is, I believe, practically never at all highlighted or reported on our Irish media.

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