Producing Leaving Cert results 'a challenge, but teachers engaged professionally'
Joe Leonard says the process itself was 'fairly clearly laid down' by the Department as to how it should be done, but there was a 'huge' amount of work for the teachers concerned.
"The staff gave it the time and attention that was needed, and engaged really professionally with the process. There was alignment across subject departments, and then alignment through the deputy principals and Principal level, checks to make sure that everything was accurate and that nothing was too much out of kilter with what would be expected from year to year."
He said it was a 'very difficult' situation for the teachers, who are 'usually the advocate for the students rather than their judge'. "These are students whom they'd have watched grow over six years, and suddenly being put in this position without having done anything like that before, there's no doubt that it was a challenge."
Mr Leonard added that the results will now allow the students to move on to the next phase of their lives, be it further education or work, or whatever they choose to do. "We kept that at the centre of it, as to why we were doing this."
The results were going live online from 9am today, and there'll be further comment later in the morning.
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