http://www.gaelport.com/index.php?page=clippings&id=2738&viewby=date quote:Significantly, the minister stressed provision would have to be made for pupils who had no Irish and for those unable to learn in classes conducted exclusively through Irish, because their Irish was weak.
But, Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta - a group favouring the all-Irish policy - says the minister is trying to 'force education through English' on a Gaeltacht school prior to the results of the survey being known.
'This survey is an attempt to undermine the democratic wishes of the majority of Gaeltacht parents to have their children educated through Irish in the Gaeltacht,' the teachers’ group said in a statement.
The group also said nobody would oppose other parents, or the department, if they wished to set up an English school in the area. However, that should not be done at the expense of Gaeltacht children being educated through Irish, the statement said.
Tá botún anseo, dar ndóigh, ní grúpa oidí atá i gceist.
