The School RTE

roxychix

just watched "School" on RTE 1. just wondering what peoples opinion are on it. good idea or bad idea

Closed ac

Bad idea, humiliating for the students.

appleb

Cant believe the VEC/ Board of Management allowed this programme to go ahead. It is showing up the teachers and the students in a very poor light.

irishdub14

im a TY student and i thought it was very good and funny! although the principal/vice principal acted a bit weird though........ what principal would go though everyones mock results.......!!

thetonynator

very unrealistic and done entirely for television.

roxychix

yeah i really think its bad because the teachers and the students will watch this back and see the bad portrayal of themselves and another negative view that the public will see teachers in.

implausible

I don't know, thought it was pretty good myself. The vast majority of people have only seen school through teenage eyes, might be no harm for people to see some of what really goes on in a school. Likewise, parents might see the typical behaviour of groups of teenagers in school, as opposed to how individual teenagers act at home. They are people out there who would be genuinely shocked at a student telling a teacher to f**k off:eek:

spurious

Which bits do you think are negative?

I thought from what I've seen so far it's a relatively fair portrayal of a modern VEC run school. It reminds me a lot of our place, though we wouldn't have their numbers.

TheDriver

I also thought it was very true to life for VEC school like my own. One thing that really shone for me is that pupils in trouble all said they were victimised etc when it was so clearly obvious that they had done some wrong and showed the public the type of conditions we must deal with in modern teachers that merely dealing with a perfectly behaved class

sock_snatcher

What exactly do you see as negative?
I went to this school and my sisters still attend, none of it was done for television and it is not unrealistic, what your seeing on the programme is exactly how the school is run. I don't think it reflects badly on anyone, it is giving a realistic and honest view of the school and how it is run.

ulysses32

I thought teachers and students were portrayed very realistically, there were the successes and the failures as there are in all walks of life.

I teach in a DEIS post-primary school and spent the evening wondering what it would be like to teach in a truly mixed-ability setting like this school. It looked great!

clartharlear

Sounds very interesting. Any way of seeing the show ye saw now? Is it a series?

Toto Wolfcastle

It's available on the RTE Player on the RTE website. You can also watch the first episode which was on last week.

congo_90

To give but one example.
The boy who pulled a cigarette out pretending to light it. That shouldn't have been shown.

I'm an ex student of the school. I was shocked to hear they were even allowed to go ahead with such a thing. I can say in an unbiased way that the teachers and staff are acting different to what they are on a day to day basis. The exception is the english teacher and the vice principal.

Still. Funny watching it. I know all the people in it quite well too.

implausible

congo_90 wrote: »

To give but one example.
The boy who pulled a cigarette out pretending to light it. That shouldn't have been shown.
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I can say in an unbiased way that the teachers and staff are acting different to what they are on a day to day basis. The exception is the english teacher and the vice principal

Why? It happens and surely the students' parents gave permission to use this. Do you expect the students to behave differently but the staff should behave the same?

congo_90

No. I'm pointing out the irony that some of the teachers were being 'different' from their normal way.
Showing the students for who they are is a good thing. It shows the reality of it. Students get to voice their opinions and thoughts on the leaving cert, bullying and the leaving cert.

ah yes. I'll let my son show himself pulling out contraband items in school to emphasise stress. Why put it in? what could possibly have come from it except give the student a higher ranking amongst his friends?

Mimikyu

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peanuthead

appleb wrote: »

Cant believe the VEC/ Board of Management allowed this programme to go ahead. It is showing up the teachers and the students in a very poor light.

On the contrary if there was more of this then maybe teachers and students alike would think twice about how they behave. I think it's a fantastic idea, the teaching profession in this country is too isolated.

As a matter of interest are those of you who think this is staged the same lot who don't think we deserve what we're paid?:rolleyes:

Toto Wolfcastle

peanuthead wrote: »

As a matter of interest are those of you who think this is staged the same lot who don't think we deserve what we're paid?:rolleyes:

I really don't think this is relevant to the thread and I would rather not turn this into another argument about teacher pay.

El Siglo

Just saw the two episodes on rte player, pretty accurate to be honest and I went to a vec school a lot worse than this one.

evolving_doors

El Siglo wrote: »

I went to a vec school a lot worse than this one.

Whaddaya mean by worse ..........I thought it seemed like a normal school with a mixed bunch!!!

El Siglo

Armelodie wrote: »

Whaddaya mean by worse ..........I thought it seemed like a normal school with a mixed bunch!!!

You might want to master the use of: :rolleyes: