Sir, – Yet another initiative to roll out so-called IT skills in our classrooms, the long-term benefit of which is unknown, unless one considers turning people into coding machines is positive.
Yet another year in which Ireland has no fully State-funded programme of musical instrument education in secondary schools, the proven benefit of which is well known across a wide range of cognitive and skill sets and recognised in many countries.
Has anyone in Government actually read the Growing Up In Ireland report? – Yours, etc,
ROBERT CHESTER,
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Knocklyon, Dublin 16.