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  • 20-10-2008 10:16pm
    #1
    Soby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭


    **EDIT**SORRY I THOUGHT I WAS IN AFTER HOURS-PLEASE MOVE..SORRY
    i know its on a serious issue and all but its hillarious at the moment..That father of 4 was going ape..poor Willie


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  • #2
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I'm sick of people who send there kids to gaelscoileanna, suddenly they create this selective school, and then they feel the state should foot the bill. I'd rather the money go into community primary schools than selective niche schools


  • #3
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    The goverment pays the same ammount of money per child to run all primary schools and pays the wages of the staff, the management of the school and it's ethos is down to the patron and the people who are on the Board of Management who are appointed by the patron, chosen by the parents as parents reps and chosen by the teachers as the teachers reps.

    That is how every primary school in this country is set up, it is designed too allow for niche schools. If you don't like it then you need over haul how primary schools are set up and change the The Education Act 1998 .

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1998/en/act/pub/0051/index.html
    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/education/primary-and-post-primary-education/going-to-primary-school/ownership-of-primary-schools


  • #4
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Can you blame the parent being pissed?

    His 11yr old girl is being taught in a 15yr old rundown prefab in a class of 35 when the teacher goes sick.
    It's like back to the pre 70's style class sizes.

    FF screw the young along with the pensioners and leave the property developers untouched with handouts like the developer bailout scheme.(they found €500m for them)


  • #5
    ninty9er
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    gurramok wrote: »
    Can you blame the parent being pissed?

    His 11yr old girl is being taught in a 15yr old rundown prefab in a class of 35 when the teacher goes sick.
    It's like back to the pre 70's style class sizes.

    FF screw the young along with the pensioners and leave the property developers untouched with handouts like the developer bailout scheme.(they found €500m for them)

    I was in a class of 32 with the kids of people on the dole, of one of the country's top property developers turned national rugby manager, of barristers, of teachers, of taxi drivers and of self employed tradesmen.

    Public services transcend the class and money divide. I had this discussion with a teaching student this evening. His contention is that he could teach in a class of 40 (and he has over a year's teaching experience...so he's not talking through his arse) and that the main issue is teacher control and lack of committment.

    Teaching is a vocation, not a job, and if there are kids in a class struggling, the teacher makes him/herself available to help outside of calss time. Unfortunately, many of the teachers in this country see no evil, hear no evil and will certainly do fu<k all after the 3pm/3:40pm bell rings.


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