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A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate has claimed that President Barack Obama was “raised white”.
Dr Ben Carson made the comments while speaking to US political news website Politico and argued that for Obama to claim to identify with the experience of black Americans was “a bit of a stretch”.
Barack Obama was born to a white American mother and a black Kenyan father.
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Carson, both of whose parents are African-American, said:
“You know… like most Americans, I was proud that we broke the color barrier when he was elected, but I also recognise that his experience and my experience are night-and-day different. He didn’t grow up like I grew up by any stretch of the imagination…
He’s an “African” American. He was, you know, raised white. Many of his formative years were spent in Indonesia. So, for him to, you know, claim that, you know, he identifies with the experience of black Americans, I think, is a bit of a stretch.
Carson, at one time a contender in the race for the Republican nomination, has seen his profile slip and came last in the South Carolina primary on Saturday taking just 7.2% of the vote.
The retired neurosurgeon had a poor upbringing in Detroit before going to win plaudits for his medical career.
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Which bookies are giving odds on this whole fiasco being a disaster and Liveline being jammed solid with complaining parents when the results are released
@Thomas Meaney: odds are too short
@Thomas Meaney: anything to take our minds of what coming down the tracks say june july .. desperate when all they needed to do was pen up a few more classrooms stocke them u with gloves soap and water and get a few more supervisors and let students sit exam they prepared for .
@Mary Ward: any teacher that lives anywhere near their school is rural Ireland now has a target on their back…it could be the same in cities.
I’m guessing the main bit of the registration process involves agreeing to the terms and conditions on how the calculated grades system works
Good luck to all the LC students, I hope you all get what your looking for, but if ur don’t be assured it will not define you. Best of luck.
T minus 30 days till “But my little Timmy couldn’t of failed maths. He is a genius.”
@Milkybar Kid: couldn’t ‘have’ failed – I daresay English might be the test to look out for.
@Joe Vlogs: Milkybar Kid is right, that’s how the parent of a genius would of phrased it
Leaving could be going ahead in the next month. Put tables 2m apart and up supervision or stick a few cameras up. Spread it out over an extra week or 2 if needed.
@Colmok: but your forgetting no school since 12th March and the internet divide. I haven’t had any contact with any teacher since we closed. That isn’t fair on anyone.
I bet this website will be down or very slow tomorrow. No way it’ll handle all students connecting
Students will be asked to opt in through the portal to indicate if they wish to receive Calculated Grades. What happens if students opt against receiving Calculated Grades? Is the only option to sit the Leaving Cert when schools reopen and if they do so will they get to university this year? I feel for all the students doing their Leaving Cert this year and wish them all the best in the future.
I thought PPS cards could only be used to claim Social Welfare benefits? Correct me if I am wrong.
@Jack Cass: no one said public service card – pps number is the number used for everything from tax to social welfare to health care to pension benefits to college grants – perfectly reasonable info to ask for – the CAO even use it
@Jack Cass: Your PPS number is used if you engage with any Public Service, Education, Health, etc.
@Jack Cass: I remember 20 years ago when I turned 16 a pps card was sent to my house with my number on it. No photo or anything. I presume it was issued to me at that age back then as I would be allowed to legally work and pay tax from 16 onwards…. Everyone I knew got one back then….. Although I had started working at age 14 weekends and summer holidays anyway but was always cash in hand and paid fairly luckily.
@Gordon Walsh: Cheers lads, I must apply for an eye test.
@Jack Cass: Jack Ass.
Oops! Sorry!
@Jack Cass: am guessing ur grades weren’t great.
What will happen if they don’t register?
@sean o’dhubhghaill: I think the department assumes that they’re not accepting calculated grades and they will sit all of the exams at a later date. Everyone should sign up for them though and just sit the exams in the subjects they think they would have done better in.
@Colleen: I would have thought that having paid their examination fees that this way was the way they were doing this anyway and that IF they weren’t happy about what they got they could sit a written exam later in the year.. this is ridiculous! I had no idea they had to register for this.
@Lydia McLoughlin: examination fees were waived for this year….anyone who paid them were given a refund
@Rach O’Sullivan: Its not really the refund I’m pointing out but rather I’m asking why do they need to register again, shouldn’t the grades be automatically calculated as a matter of course for them anyway? They registered already to do their leaving cert so this was done once no? If they want to sit an exam as they’re not happy with the result later in the year then they can then do this.
I’m confused why they need to select higher or lower if its calculated grades then its average no?? If doing pass maths why not now say I’ll do hons and collect the extra 25pts!!!
@Lydia McLoughlin: Students can only move down to ordinary level they cannot move up to higher level. Your school should be communicating all of this with you.
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