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All the children of the nation are to be cherished equally - but some will be cherished more equally

category national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Tuesday October 03, 2006 22:51author by Skanger Pride Report this post to the editors

The slow rightward lurch

The pernicious effects of Centre For Talented Youth of Ireland and other "gifted education" programmes.

The Centre for Talented Youth of Ireland does its' best to portray itself as an organisation that helps children of high ability to prosper. That is partly true - it charges a lot for attending. This is surely a classist thing.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=51054&r...59211

Some would say "So what?", pointing to the fact that the organisation is not doing anything illegal, even though intelligence testing is a controversial topic.

But what is disturbing is the fact that the Irish Government is funding it! In 2004 the subvention from the Department of Education and Science amounted to 86,000 euro! (The document is linked to below.)

How on earth can the government take the taxes of the working classes to pay for an elitist summer school which those same working classes cannot afford to enter?! This is a national scandal!

Related Link: http://debates.oireachtas.ie/Xml/29/DAL20040707A.PDF

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   The very , very wealthy like 'cachet'     Masseuse    Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:22 
   My apologies if I don't get your drift     Skanger Pride    Wed Oct 04, 2006 15:01 
   I was agreeing with you.     Masseuse    Wed Oct 04, 2006 16:16 
   A courageous author challenges the ideolgy of "giftedness"     Skanger Pride    Thu Oct 05, 2006 18:52 
   Answers to questions     Skanger Pride    Thu Oct 05, 2006 21:04 
   I loved it.     CTYI'er    Wed Oct 18, 2006 15:18 
   CYTI(er)     Masseuse    Wed Oct 18, 2006 15:49 
   not quite..     CTYizen    Wed Oct 18, 2006 16:02 
   as above     caats    Wed Oct 18, 2006 16:44 
 10   Globalisation     Masseuse    Wed Oct 18, 2006 16:45 
 11   why is there such stigma in being gifted     giftedorcursed    Wed Oct 18, 2006 18:54 
 12   Cop on.     CTYI'er    Wed Oct 18, 2006 21:28 
 13   Skanger Pryde     Donall    Wed Oct 18, 2006 22:45 
 14   Working class jargon     Artemis_Gwinhilda    Thu Oct 19, 2006 21:28 
 15   We are the normal people     Johnnie Talented    Thu Oct 19, 2006 21:36 
 16   A Yardstick     Masseuse    Thu Oct 19, 2006 21:42 
 17   Misconceptions     Former CTYI Student    Fri Oct 20, 2006 02:44 
 18   A reply to CTYI'er     Skanger Pride    Mon Oct 23, 2006 19:44 
 19   SAT's     Yardstick    Mon Oct 23, 2006 20:21 
 20   Reply to caats     Skanger Pride    Mon Oct 23, 2006 20:22 
 21   Yardstick confuses me     Skanger Pride    Mon Oct 23, 2006 20:24 
 22   I asked last a CYTI(er)     Yardstick    Mon Oct 23, 2006 20:33 
 23   To Donall     Skanger Pride    Mon Oct 23, 2006 20:50 
 24   Another reply to CTYI'er     Skanger Pride    Mon Oct 23, 2006 20:53 
 25   In referance to the above     Former CTYI Student    Tue Oct 24, 2006 01:05 
 26   Clarification     Yardstick    Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:56 
 27   Jeez louise!     CTYizen    Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:30 
 28   CTYI     Viv    Tue Oct 24, 2006 19:39 
 29   just an addon     ex-staff    Tue Oct 31, 2006 19:16 
 30   The regection of grammatical rules is endemic here...     comma    Tue Oct 31, 2006 20:33 
 31   Complete disagreement     CTYI student    Fri Nov 03, 2006 15:10 
 32   Thank goodneess for CTYI     CTYI Parent    Tue Nov 07, 2006 09:29 
 33   in response to Skanger Pride     CTYI Pride    Wed Nov 08, 2006 15:00 
 34   In response to CTYI pride     Skanger Pride    Wed Nov 08, 2006 17:05 
 35   More Groucho than Karl Marx     Neurotic Tendencies    Wed Nov 08, 2006 22:10 
 36   Interesting blog     Skanger Pride    Thu Nov 09, 2006 15:29 
 37   So, babies and bathwater     Cormac    Sat Nov 11, 2006 18:57 
 38   More interesting analysis of gifted education     Skanger Pride    Mon Dec 04, 2006 14:04 
 39   What about us?     LaurenJ    Mon Mar 12, 2007 00:08 
 40   Apologies     LaurenJ    Mon Mar 12, 2007 00:32 
 41   A little knowledge is, well, a little knowledge.     Goddit    Fri Aug 10, 2007 02:39 
 42   Masseuse     Goddit    Fri Aug 10, 2007 02:52 
 43   A few observations.     FormerStudent    Fri Nov 23, 2007 23:38 
 44   research first     someone    Fri Jan 23, 2009 23:07 
 45   Future CTYIer...     Sarah    Wed May 09, 2012 19:16 


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