Murple wrote: » Can I ask you what training you think should be given on ‘how to deal with things’?
iamwhoiam wrote: » Training in how to cope with stressed children . Training in how to deal with anxiety in childen . Training in recognising symptoms or how to deal with a suspected case of Covid . Training in teaching children to cope with a different school experience if need be . Etc etc
byhookorbycrook wrote: » Children with underlying conditions need to be thought about . Children spread Covid as well as adults do, we need to be thinking in terms of the children with health issues , the school staff and the wider school community such as parents and grandparents . Socially , children can now visit playgrounds and also interact with their peers , so that’s a start
Deeec wrote: » Wireless dude I am guessing you don't have any children. Not every parent is at home doing nothing and 'couldnt be bothered' as you put it. Parents are stressed out trying to teach several children while trying to work from home and also while trying to look after babies and toddlers. Your suggestion that parents cant be bothered is very insulting - You dont know the circumstances of each household and every household is different. It has been very difficult trying to juggle everything. Children whose parents are not working or are an only child are at a huge advantage for homeschooling being successful. Most parents are trying their best and putting in very long days to try and homeschool and also meet the requiremments of their jobs. I do understand that teachers have been working without any guidance from the Dept of Education and doing their best. Please understand that most parents are also trying their best in very stressful circumstances.
jrosen wrote: » Symptoms of covid have been shoved in our faces since march. The only time you could be trained in any of these is over the Summer. Is this something thats available to you? But I would have thought teachers had some training /guidance when it comes to stress and anxiety in students?
byhookorbycrook wrote: » There is a process in place for this ( it was sent out by the DES ten weeks in .) I’d suggest you follow this as it’s certainly not the norm in most schools and those schools drag the rest of us down.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » When I say they couldn't be bothered I really do mean they couldn't be bothered. I had three families tell me that they wouldn't do any of the work that I would be giving or doing with my class. I had various different excuses about why it took 5 families between 4 and 6 weeks to log in to Google classroom. I could go on if you like. This is my experience. I had two families ring my principal to say I had done nothing. Loved that I was able to show my principal all I had done and the various login logs for the various sites and apps that I used that showed that the two families had never bothered to actually log in. People seem to forget that anything online has an electronic trail. As I said I don't tend to BS and don't respond well when people aren't straight. Thankfully I have a principal who doesn't believe everything that lands on her desk.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Looks like pubs and restaurants are going to be getting that exemption from social distancing and will be allowed to have the 1m rule instead. There will be very few places still carrying on with social distancing come September. Bar hand sanitisers and signage its on its way out and is already non existent for a lot of workers.
iamwhoiam wrote: » I am not sure what you mean by “ is this available to you “ ?
meeeeh wrote: » From perspective of those children it actually doesn't matter whether you did nothing or their parents did nothing. We need schools back to give kids like that some sort of a chance.
jrosen wrote: » The training you mention that is needed by teachers? Is this available for teachers?
meeeeh wrote: » When we reopened we had to do a Risk Assessment, implement precautions, adapt workplace, work procedures and so on. We are a company of 20. Are you telling me that schools, principals, unions and Department of Education are unable to put together some sort of work practices and advise their employees/members? And even worse, it is already decided that nothing can be done two months away from school reopening.
khalessi wrote: » Yep that was what we looked for and expected last week and yep not done. I know it is done unofficially by my principal but that is the stuff that the Department were supposed to get their finger out and sort. I know from meetings in school we have informally been discussing this but nothin formal can be done without official department guidelines. Bureaucracy gone mad. The red tape just to get them to order hand sanitizer has been unreal. In the best of times I provide pencils, rubbers rulers. books in some cases, copies, cleaning products and cloths for my classroom even sweeping brushes and pans. and that is normal for most teachers There is an ongoing joke in teaching that it is the only job you steal from home and bring to work.
khalessi wrote: » In the best of times I provide pencils, rubbers rulers. books in some cases, copies, cleaning products and cloths for my classroom even sweeping brushes and pans. and that is normal for most teachers There is an ongoing joke in teaching that it is the only job you steal from home and bring to work.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Just on this because it always puzzles me, why aren't the parents being asked to supply the likes of copies, stationery etc? I get handed back a pile of unused copies without fail at the end of every single year (all were on the booklist) it's not one or two more like 10-15 unused copies. I always thought they put extra on everyone's list as 'spares' in the event that there would be some kid who wouldn't have any??
Deeec wrote: » I do hear what you are saying and I know you are correct - there will always be parents who don't care. The majority of parents do care however and are trying their best to ensure everything gets covered. Im just saying it is really really really hard for us to combine everything and teachers need to be understanding of us. Trust me home working and homeschooling at the same time is very difficult.
Mrsmum wrote: » I think remote learning, which in lots of cases meant no learning, was something we could tolerate from March to May/June because well everyone was thrown in at the deep end and it was enough to just keep afloat considering all the individual difficulties people were dealing with. We're alot further down the road now & we know we have to live alongside this virus and that means workers who need to be physically present to do their jobs need to go back working and that our children need a proper full time education. Being very blunt about it, for all hospital staff, from doctors to cleaners, our starting point was patients must be cared for, for grocery stores & haulage companies our starting point was food (& toilet paper)needed to be available to buy, for gardai, that we needed them out there, for bus drivers, that transport was essential and so forth. And from that starting point, whatever was required to the best of our ability was provided for the employees. We even sent a call out for medical personnel to come home from abroad and converted hotels into hospitals. We had huge plane loads of PPE flown in from China. So now I think the time is nigh to be getting real about education. We need to be approaching the school issue that all students, except the vulnerable, need to go back full time in Sept. That this is as necessary as carers in nursing homes and food in the shops. Our children's education should not be way down the priority line. The Government and D of Ed need a kick up the backside. They need to stop tinkering around with this and start spending money doing whatever it takes. Because this remote/blended learning is codology and utterly failing our children.
Boggles wrote: » Well no, I am not assuming anything, it's not my opinion. Evidence based science conclusively proves the restrictions controlled the spread of the virus, it's absolutely irrefutable and bizarre in the extreme that a functioning adult at this stage would hold such a view. Unless you can cite some other credible science based evidence that a similar novel virus would have just burned itself out in the same time frame with the same adverse effects without mitigation? I'll gladly take a peek.
Mrsmum wrote: » I was watching something on telly the other day and they were discussing home schooling. The sports commentator, Evanne Ni Chuilinn was saying how it wasn't working for her and her child/children at all at all. Then she said her mother, who is a teacher, told her you can't be both parent and schoolteacher and to just leave the homework. To involve the children in household stuff and teach them in that way. I also am friendly with a teacher who has a little girl in junior infants. She told me she told her child's teacher that they wouldn't be engaging in any work sent home because as she explained to me the work sent home is for the masses, not individually tailored. And again that she would be teaching her child through home activities. And then you have other parents fighting every day with their children to get every last bit of the set homework done and it's almost to the point the work is being done to satisfy the teacher rather than for the good of the child. Home schooling is all over the shop.
mcsean2163 wrote: » Doesn't the influenza virus recede in the summer months?
screamer wrote: » When has homework ever been tailored for each child, we’ve always been treated as the masses. How could any teacher set individual homework? Jees some people are too precious, I feel sorry for teachers having to deal with parents like that. You can be teacher and parent to your child, we all are from the time they’re born so that’s a load of bull also, it’s the will and interest to help your child get their work done that’s the difference between parents, and yes I work a full time job at home since lockdown with 3 kids here on my own to look after and home school.
jrosen wrote: » Im actually not worried about my children, they are strong healthy children with no underlying conditions. I have no more reason to be worried about them retuning to school this year than any other year.
