Anglalingvo en Gaelalernejoj

...de la Irish Times:

“Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, has decided that all Irish-speaking schools - gaelscoileanna - will be obliged to teach at least half an hour of English a day from next year.

Until now, many gaelscoileanna have not taught English at all for the first two years of a child's schooling.

It is understood that schools with such a ‘total immersion’ tradition of teaching Irish have until 2008 to implement the new policy which will apply to pupils in the second term of junior infants and upwards…”