If you were to ask teachers what was the most divisive initiative to come into the primary education system in the last decade, Droichead would be high on the list. Initially designed so that schools would probate their own new staff, it developed from a pantomime into a circus. In part one, we look at the beginnings of Droichead and how it eventually did exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to achieve.

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