Sir, – The Irish Times reported on the potential penalisation of some students due to the removal of historical school data from the grade calculation process ("Leaving Cert – removing school data risked penalising some students", News, February 22nd).
Harry Deacon (Letters, February 26th) points out that this would discriminate against high-performing schools.
That may well be the case but I find it rather amusing that the concepts of unfairness, discrimination and unfair disadvantage lie at the centre of his argument.
Unfortunately these concepts form the basis of our two-tier education system. The system heavily favours those from wealthy backgrounds.
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One can only hope that the sudden and vehement reliance on the concepts of fairness and discrimination will survive beyond the grades calculation issue. – Yours, etc,
REAMONN
O’LUAN,
Churchtown,
Dublin 14.