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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

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204 points joveian | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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MattPalmer1086 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41862123[source]▶
Sounds like a great idea.

In England, I've seen education get consistently more rigid and inflexible over the years. All about tests, tests and more tests. Teachers leave the profession, children turn off. And as it consistently fails to produce better results, the answer is always to do more of what has failed.

Bring something like this to England, please!

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illwrks ◴[16 Oct 24 18:47 UTC] No.41862393[source]▶
Is this not the same as a gap year?

I’m Irish but unfortunately never bothered with TY. I live in the UK now so I’ve a limited understanding of TY and the ‘Gap year’.

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1. Macha ◴[16 Oct 24 20:56 UTC] No.41863782[source]▶
A gap year is normally between the end of secondary school and starting college (so 18-20 or so). TY is between junior cycle (junior cert, or inter cert if you're older) and senior cycle (leaving cert). So 14-16 year olds (who couldn't legally take a gap year)