Ed Walsh goes in over the top again !!

millix

Ed Walsh is nothing if not consistent

Back in October ( The Irish Times - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 ) he wrote an article titled “McCarthy report clears way for a renegotiation of teaching contracts” It starts with

"We have a school system where teachers are seldom assessed, excellence goes unrewarded, mediocrity is tolerated, and the indolent find sanctuary. It is high time for a new teaching contract, writes the former president of UL"

Read it all at http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2009/1020/1224257048765.html

At that time John White of ASTI and others jumped in to defend teachers, and accused Ed of advocating a “debilitating, neo-liberal surveillance” of teachers. No surprise there ...

Now in today’s Irish Examiner he puts the boot in again, and this time he suggests a unique cost saving measure – I’ll let you need to read the article to see what it is, but it represents a major leap forward in thinking ..
Pampered teachers acting like spoiled children By Claire O’Sullivan

Wednesday, April 07, 2010
AS the teachers’ unions hold annual conferences around the country, the founding president of the University of Limerick has launched a blistering attack on teachers describing them as "a pampered group" who are "behaving like spoiled children".
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/pampered-teachers-acting-like-spoiled-children-116585.html

Fizzical

Must be a reason he's so vindictive against teachers.

Anyone know anything about his own schooling?

slickmcvic

....I reckon he must be on the take from IBEC or some other employers group....must look up his speaking engagements...I know that's a serious source of income for the likes of Eddie Hobb's and other mouthpieces that our wheeled out against teachers every so often.....Either that or he didnt like what the naughty Christian brothers did to him!!!

Dutchie

Dr Ed Walsh is one of the most innovative and visonary academics Ireland has ever posessed.
If more school teachers followed his lead, higher calibre students would be produced in our schools.

spurious

Isn't he the guy suggested the 'yellow pack' teachers?
I think what ever credibility he ever had went then.

TheColl

Dutchie wrote: »

Dr Ed Walsh is one of the most innovative and visonary academics Ireland has ever posessed.
If more school teachers followed his lead, higher calibre students would be produced in our schools.

Do elaborate.

Fizzical

Dutchie wrote: »

Dr Ed Walsh is one of the most innovative and visonary academics Ireland has ever posessed.
If more school teachers followed his lead, higher calibre students would be produced in our schools.

LOL