mcsean2163 wrote: » I see no teachers volunteering and we have been getting one blog a week I do with my daughter.
Hubertj wrote: » unions will, as usual, make things far more difficult than they need to be. Decisions should be made by health experts, guidance given to dept of education and that guidance put into action. Not sure why the unions are being so vocal. Likely they will look for more money or some nonsense like that. Just get back to work like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN EUROPE.
downthemiddle wrote: » So you agree that teachers, and school authorities, are correct to be very concerned about reopening as their safety, and the safety of the children, won't be taken seriously. I'm glad we cleared that up.
s1ippy wrote: » As yet, no department officials being sent to measure classrooms, no facilities being improved, no added funding for the principals to do it.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » I'm guessing they are hoping it won't be necessary. Guidelines should be issued shortly but those will be subject to change, and they are just that, guidelines. Schools are due to reopen end of August so anything that's required will need to be in place well before then. I got an email last week saying that the summer camps here are going ahead end of July with some adjustments, I just assumed it would be cancelled but seems like things are adapting.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » I got an email last week saying that the summer camps here are going ahead end of July with some adjustments, I just assumed it would be cancelled but seems like things are adapting.
s1ippy wrote: » These cash-grabbers are claiming they'll be opening:https://www.letsgo.ie/kids-summercamps-ireland/summer-camps/find-a-camp
mcsean2163 wrote: » There is no veil. I see no teachers volunteering and we have been getting one blog a week I do with my daughter. A friend who is a secondary teacher thinks it is ridiculous. I know there are a lot of good teachers out there but also fear a lot of others are very happy to take the time out. Friend in Chicago's child of same age was given an ipad and has a detailed schedule of work for everyday. The work has to be submitted each day and is corrected. Here, a blog a week.Some Captain Controversy who is sick of the kids whittling nonsense on the internet doesn't change that actual hard fact. Look you're right, this is a stupid place to come. You've been rude and insulting, You are not offering constructive criticism and I'm wasting my time responding to your insults.
s1ippy wrote: » [url] These cash-grabbers are claiming they'll be opening: [/url]https://www.letsgo.ie/kids-summercamps-ireland/summer-camps/find-a-camp I worked for them years ago, they pay staff a pittance, operate out of community schools and when it's raining your child will be inside in a hall panting and heaving with a hundred others. Safe! It doesn't fill me with confidence to see that they've jumped the gun on the decision to "let's go" before NEPHET gives guidance on their safe operation, but it'll certainly be an experiment to watch and we'll see if those who ship their kids off live to regret it.
daydorunrun wrote: » Don’t waste your time trying to engage. Anybody who talks of the merits of reopening schools is a winger and bad parent who is sick of their own kids according to this particular poster.
Boggles wrote: » Like Giggs? Suppose he was a bad parent too. Sweet left foot though.
Sammy2012 wrote: » What summer camps are those Fringegirl? Curious to see what will go ahead over the summer now.
Boggles wrote: » Teachers are not volunteers. It has been decided to not overwhelm parents and kids with school work in an unprecedented time. Anyway your daughter is 5, she won't be taking the bar any time soon. You should be enjoying your precious time with her and not whinging, her most important education will come from you and your wife anyway. The schools will come back in probably a different form, what that form will be is not up to the teachers, but they have to implement it.
Murple wrote: » Hospitals open? Nursing homes open? Hmmmm. They are closed to all except those who work in them and the patients/ residents. It would be pretty odd if during a pandemic, they were shut down and everyone sent home. Oh wait, a nursing home is home for the residents! Police open? They are essential, security, law and order service. Supermarkets open? People need food and cleaning supplies. DIY store have only been open for 2 weeks. They are limiting those who come in. They have Perspex screens up. They are enforcing 2 metres distance. Your attitude is kind of confusing mcsean2163. You want schools open but you won't let your child mix with others (even though it is allowed for the last 2 weeks- up to 4 people from different houses, at 2m distance). You desperately want your child back at school but you say you would be prepared to teach the class (surely then you can teach your child at home as parent and primary educator. It doesn't all have to be book learning). Your wife is a hospital worker and yet you are so blasé/ lacking understanding about infection spread. The government is not stopping children playing together. You are.
mcsean2163 wrote: » If you think children play at 2m distance.... I want my child back at school for the social aspect, that's all. I've done all the homework and more with her.
History Queen wrote: » Hopefully for your child and every other child in the country schools will open as close to normal as possible in September. As a teacher all this kite flying going on in the media about blended learning is worrying. Our numbers are rapidly improving so hopefully they are just headline makers rather than based on real possibilities. I'm curious though as to why you won't allow your child some limited socialisation now as the previous poster suggested? It is permissible under current guidelines.
Tommysocks11 wrote: » Teachers want to do sweet f**c all and still get paid, what about us who work full time and need our kids to be minded in creche or school, other countries have reopened schools but our morons are afraid of re opening in 3 months time....its a laugh
