Questions for canvassers.

byhookorbycrook

I don't care who you vote for, but I think a thread on what to raise with canvassers would be good.For example, Labout have a plan where schools could be forced to work 30 mins extra per day if literacy targets are not reached!?
So...let's ignore all the special needs children/EAL and punish a school if they don't reach x target.This kind of stuff killed teaching in other countries.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0124/1224288165103.html

My list so far
1.Will you commit to reducing class sizes?(Or at least to no further increase in sizes?)
2.Will your party give schools the resources they need to support children with SEN and remove the ban on recruiting SNAs?
3.Do you agree with the reduction of 5% of the capitation grant?
4. Will your party remove the ban on replacing post-holders in schools?
5. Where does your party stand on proper provision for exceptionally able children in schools?

delta_bravo

Repeal of Section 30 of the proposed Eduction Act 2010 to allow non registered people to work as teachers

E.T.

Are you aware that children with recommendations for a full-time SNA from a psychologist are not receiving this assistance and that SNAs are being shared between children wth very different needs, in different classrooms?

Do you know how many subjects are taught in primary schools? (Bet most of them say 7 or 8).

Dionysus

I have just discovered in the past two weeks, to my utter shock, that our school is entitled to a single psychological assessment for a single student in the entire school for the entire year.

In one of my classes I have six, yes six, students who are diagnosed with things such as ADHD and Dyslexia. When I enquired about other students who are difficult to manage I was shown the list of students and beside a further five students was 'No Assessment'. Then I was told the financial reason why.

There are great kids in that same class whose education is undermined on a daily basis because of the children who have not been assessed and are falling behind everybody as a result of not having access to extra supports. And these kids are determined to bring the rest of the class down with them.

Irish society will be paying for decades if this destruction of young lives and opportunities is allowed to continue.

Dionysus

delta_bravo wrote: »

Repeal of Section 30 of the proposed Eduction Act 2010 to allow non registered people to work as teachers

Do you want non-registered people to be allowed to work in schools, or do you want to repeal a provision which allows them to work in schools?

Edit: I just read the EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 2010, and it appears you meant the latter:

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister, where he or she is satisfied that it is necessary to facilitate the urgent, temporary or occasional staffing needs of schools, may from time to time prescribe both—

(a) the circumstances in which a person who is employed in a teaching capacity in a recognised school, but is not a Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1998.
Amendment of section 7 of Act of 1998. Repeal of section 32 of Act of 1998. Amendment of section 30 of Teaching Council Act 2001. registered teacher, may be remunerated in respect of his or her employment out of monies provided by the Oireachtas, and
(b) the conditions attaching to the employment of such a person where he or she is to be remunerated out of monies provided by the Oireachtas.'

It makes a mockery of the PGDE, degrees and the Teaching Council that non-registered teachers will legally be allowed to be employed in Irish schools if this 2010 amendment becomes law.

sushisushi

Start by asking them when they're going to lift the recruitment moratorium in education.

spurious

Repeal Section 37 of the so-called Equality legislation that allows schools to discriminate against staff who do not fit whatever their idea of ethos is.

How come progress in special needs resourcing results in teachers having children with special needs in mainstream classes of up to 30 when 25 years ago they would never have been in a group of more than 12?