I've signed this, although GCSE isn't the real problem.
We need a compulsory "Our Wales" course taken at the old keystage 3 (ages 11-14). It should cover Welsh history, how the Senedd & Welsh democracy works, and key creative writers in both languages.

As a Welsh person and an historian, I endorse this. Just as an example, most people ‘know’ that, outside Pictland, resistance to Roman rule ended with Boudicca. But it took the Romans more than 25 years to defeat the Silures.

I left school having learned literally nothing about the country in which I lived. All education was geared towards english perspective. I came away knowing all about how the industrial revolution and the blitz affected london/manchester etc and nothing about how it affected my own home

Me writing an essay: queering the middle ages is not about uncovering sexual identities, but about examining the ways in which things don't conform to heteronormative study and thereby unsettle the established orthodoxy through which we view the middle ages

Also me: hahaha he's so gay

It feels like a shameless number of people think that English has always been the dominant language of Wales. As if Dewi Sant and Llywelyn ap Iorwerth never spoke a word of Welsh, and that all the Anglicized placenames are the originals. Generations have been failed by a piss poor education.

Mē and mec are variants of accusative 'me' in Old English.

Mē is typical of Wessex texts, and mec of Mercian ones (with a final consonant that's still there in German mich).

Yet the Alfred Jewel text ('Alfred ordered me made') uses "mec" – evidence perhaps of Mercians working for the Wessex king.