Let’s get physical
The results of a survey carried by RTE news has found that 10 % of Irish secondary schools are dropping Physics as a subject, partly due to budget cuts impacting on teaching.
Now I think this is significant. It is time to challenge this pack of panderers, drunkards and cheats who rule us with the assertion that their claims about wanting to create a smart economy staffed by educated people, which will make Ireland a competitive player in the world market, are nothing more than rancid piss.
I have many regrets one being that I did not work harder at Maths while at school, and as a result I turned away from Physics. If I had my life over again it would be so different … I opted instead to concentrate on subjects like history, and in retrospect I feel that history is a subject for losers -it’s a thing of the past.
But how can we provide significantly qualified scientists and engineers, the bedrock of any truly competitive economy, while removing Physics as a subject choice? The subject needs teachers with properly equipped laboratories. It is not something that you can study on your own. To make cuts which impact so seriously on our ongoing competitiveness is nothing short of stupid.
But we all know that our government is no more than a pack of puppets in the hands of a small group of unrepresentative and shadowy scoundrels. They seem inexorably wed to the McCarthy report, a document which, once it proposed cuts in social welfare payments was like a wet dream to the hard right in Ireland, and to those who, having managed through fairer means than foul to scrape their hoards together, are damned if they’re going to let anyone else do the same.
