From Leaving CertiFiCate to Leaving SChooL a Longitudinal Study ...

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From Leaving Certificate to Leaving School
I’d like to have done a coaching course but it’s just, I don’t know,
there’s not enough people in the school like to do it. (Hay Street,
coed school, working-class intake)
Students in Fig Lane suggested that they could have done more practical
courses, such as driver education, which they felt they would benefit from:
I think they should have brought in a subject that like your really going
to use in life, like drivers’ ed or something like that.
Yeah that should be part of it, definitely.
They have that in America, they should have brought that in here.
(Fig Lane, coed school, middle-class intake)
6.3.3 Preparation for College
In preparation for entry into college, some students felt that their school
could have organised days where they could hear the experiences of past
students or find out more about the college system in general:
We could have had more, I think colleges came in to talk to us, if we
had more people coming from there to tell us a bit more stuff, then
we’d have a rough idea of what was going to happen.
Even if the past students came back and talked to you about their experiences
and how.
Yeah.
How did they get on and how they found it. (Dawson Street, coed
school, mixed intake)
Just to tell us a bit about what . . .
What college is like and all that.
Yeah, what college we can go to, what we can do after college.
(Dawson Street, coed school, mixed intake)
Students in Hay Street (coed school, working-class intake) felt that
‘shadow days’ with current college students would have been helpful.