ELSTA calls on the Minister for Education not to implement cuts to EAL Teaching

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We the undersigned strongly disagree with the proposed cutbacks to EAL teaching as outlined in Budget 2009. We call on the Minister for Finance not to implement these cutbacks at a time when unprecedented numbers of children for whom English is not a first language are being educated in our schools.

56 Signatures

  • Rachael Fionda
  • caroline mcphillips
  • Niamh Marcias
  • Karen Keane
  • David Fitzgerald
    • Comments
    • Two won't do!
  • Mary Ryan
    • Comments
    • I am in denial that such cuts will take place - they will be devastating.
  • Josephine O'Brien
    • Comments
    • How can the government continue to be so short-sighted
  • Siobhan McPhee
  • girard
  • Zachary Lyons
    • Comments
    • As someone who spends the greater part of his working week visiting mainstream and language support teachers in post-primary classrooms I am dismayed and extremely disheartened at the insidious shortsightedness of these forthcoming cuts and their inevitable direct impact on equality of educational opportunity for our newcomer students.
  • Fiona Loxley
  • Farrell Valerie
  • David Landy
    • Comments
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  • Catherine Lennon
  • Muireann Ni Raghallaigh
  • Sarah Sheridan
    • Comments
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  • Nick Skehan
  • Catriona Brown
    • Comments
    • Every child should be given the best possible chance in their education
  • Agnieszka Kasjanowicz
  • Paula Sheerin
    • Comments
    • If you go ahead with this cut in education for immigrant children, it will cost all of us in the future: these children will not be able to integate into society and find jobs in the future. They will become a burden on the state.
  • grainne Scully
  • Irene Scully
    • Comments
    • Have a heart, minister!
  • Helen Bohan
  • Patricia Wallace
    • Comments
    • Asking students to succeed academically when working through a second language without EAL support is setting them up for failure, unemployment and State dependency later in life.
  • Gwen Brennan
  • Yvonne Kiely
    • Comments
    • Two years allocation is simply not enough to become proficient in the English language.
  • honorat
  • Mairead Lonergan
  • christine taylor
  • Aisling Griffin
  • Eddie Grimes
  • John Morrissey
    • Comments
    • Cutting back on the most vulnerable in society is not acceptable, Minister.
  • Gavan Sheridan
  • Rachel Campbell
  • Kelly Wood
  • Garry Crossan
  • Theresa Wood
  • Grainne Flanagan
  • Maria Bedford
  • Clare Stenson
  • Ciara Alford
  • Joanne O'Leary
    • Comments
    • Please Please don't do this
  • Patricia Rooney
  • Orla Hill
  • Theresa Wood
    • Comments
    • Please dont cut the vulnerable where you think they cant object. Supporting the most vulnerable person in a family or country improves the lives of everyone in the family or country.
  • Edel Farrelly
  • Edyta Amanowicz
  • Karen Patton
  • Geraldine Friel
  • Claire Morton