The plans to cancel the leaving cert are an absolute disgrace. The Dept of Education is too weak to fulfil its primary duty.
For 14 years kids are told that the leaving cert is the culmination of their education, now it seems that it isn't important enough to make the effort to run it safely.
Whatever efforts that are needed to run the leaving cert safely, additional exam centres, (all those empty primary schools), PPE for students and supervisors, temperature checks at each centre, whatever it takes, if society cared about young people this would be done, but its all just too much bother.
There has been much praise for the public sector response to the current crises, and much of it well deserved, healthcare staff going to work knowing the risk to their own health. But if the education sector fails to hold the leaving cert exams, it will earn my contempt at least.