Sir, – How disheartening it is, as a teacher of 37 years, to see the power of the Teaching Council to discipline under-performing teachers being editorially commented on (January 7th), while the actual performance of teachers in substantially raising literacy and numeracy levels in DEIS schools, as recently measured by the Educational Research Centre, was editorially ignored. – Yours, etc,
DER FITZGIBBON,
Scoil Íosagáin,
Farranree,
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