Second home-schooled student wins calculated grades case

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A second home-schooled Leaving Certificate student won her High Court case over exclusion from calculated grades, reported on 24 September 2020. The student was taught by her mother, father and private tutors, none of whom were registered teachers. Mr Justice Charles Meenan ruled that the Department of Education’s failure to provide a system for the unnamed student was irrational, arbitrary, unfair and unlawful. He rejected the Department’s distinction between her case and that of Elijah Burke, whose mother was a registered teacher. The Department said it would consider the implications of the ruling urgently.