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Leadership ... what it actually means

  • 14-01-2020 10:38PM
    #1
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭


    Teachers run schools.

    Not principals or deputies who have attended leadership courses and have rehearsed interview questions and answers. Apparently, GAA connections help seal the deal.

    Anecdotal evidence suggests that the average student these days ‘fears not the master’ but instead respects the respector.


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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,412 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    In my experience, the school secretaries/porters run the schools.

    Teacher or Principal out sick? Meh.
    School secretary or porter out? Chaos.


  • #3
    Treppen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,765 ✭✭✭Treppen


    Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »
    Teachers run schools.

    Not principals or deputies who have attended leadership courses and have rehearsed interview questions and answers. Apparently, GAA connections help seal the deal.

    Anecdotal evidence suggests that the average student these days ‘fears not the master’ but instead respects the respector.

    Who's the respector?


  • #4
    happywithlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭happywithlife


    spurious wrote: »
    In my experience, the school secretaries/porters run the schools.

    Teacher or Principal out sick? Meh.
    School secretary or porter out? Chaos.

    Oh my gosh! This by a thousand. We recently had to do without our secretary for a few months and it was brutal! Noone knew where anything was, why wasn't the bus booked to take students to Opens Days, roll call was a disaster, no texts home re students absent etc ...and the photocopier ...don't even go there
    She got some royal welcome back :)


  • #5
    Icsics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Icsics


    I can tell u what’s it’s not...LAOS & ‘competency based interviews’


  • #6
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    So, LAOS leaders avoid actual interactions with the clients in my local school.... nowhere to be seen at key times in key areas. A grade 3 clerical worker could run the s and s scheme.

    APs enjoy the few hundred quid a month but are puppets....

    System is a mess.


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  • #7
    Treppen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,765 ✭✭✭Treppen


    Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »
    So, LAOS leaders avoid actual interactions with the clients in my local school.... nowhere to be seen at key times in key areas. A grade 3 clerical worker could run the s and s scheme.

    APs enjoy the few hundred quid a month but are puppets....

    System is a mess.

    What's a client?


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