Schools settle teacher deployment dispute

Gavin "shels"

A challenge by four Protestant schools against the Department of Education's teacher redeployment scheme has been settled at the High Court.

The terms of the settlement were not revealed in court.

The four private Dublin secondary schools, St Andrew's in Booterstown, Rathdown Girls' School in Glenageary, Wesley College in Ballinteer and St Patrick's Grammar, Christchurch claimed the scheme interfered with their autonomy over who they can employ.

They were looking for declarations that the Minister for Education had breached their Constitutional rights by requiring them to accept teachers under the scheme because of the closure of a number of schools in Dublin.

The Minister denied the claims and the State also claimed the question of how to deal with surplus teachers was agreed with the social partners as part of the national agreement Towards 2016.

The schools issued a statement saying they are satisfied with the settlement agreed with the Department of Education that has addressed the schools' concerns and has resulted in the Department paying the schools' costs.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0612/schools.html

Gavin "shels"

Not sure if this is the right forum, so if it's not Mods please move it.



What's peoples opinions on this matter? Personnally I think it's an utter joke, I go to St.Patrick Grammar School (one of the schools in question) and am not to happy about it, I know in the case of my school there Government are involved in the paying of wages and the school is not fully private.

watna

Wait, I don't understand.

Private schools have teachers that are payed by the state (the amount of teachers a school is allocated is worked out by the number of pupils) and also teachers that are payed by the school to keep class sizes down. The government is always involved in paying most teachers wages whether the shcool is private or not. Were the surplus teachers paid by the school or by the state? Is that what the problem is? or was is that they were forced to take teachers on without any say in it? Cos I can understand them having a problem with either of those scenarios.

I also went to one of the four schools in question.

Gavin "shels"

I know in our school, part-time teachers are paid by the school and full-time are paid by the state to an extent.

the_syco

Balls to that. If they want to decide who teaches in their school, then they should pay all the teachers themselves... not the fiasco that exists now, whereby the public taxes funds a private school that the public cannot access, unless they pay private fees...:eek: