jrosen wrote: » I never said hair, i said beauty.
khalessi wrote: » I already have been in school wearing masks. I have stated loads of times I will wear a mask until I am happy not to.
iamwhoiam wrote: » I meant would you be happy to wear a clear face shield instead of a mask
khalessi wrote: » Webinar on for hair and beauty salonshttps://www.localenterprise.ie/Westmeath/Training-Events/Online-Bookings/Webinar-Reopening-Hair-Beauty-Businesses-after-COVID19-18th-May-LEO201958.htmlhttp://www.irishbeauty.ie/ABT-offers-directions-to-Members-for-salon-reopening.html There was advice out there and since most are private enterprise they could come up with their own guidlelines. Schools dont have that independence as everything has to signed by Dept oF Ed.
khalessi wrote: » I have some, ordered months ago but in a school setting I dont think they would work as well because the children are much smaller than adults and when they cough germs can come under the end of the maks but I have a couple of other alternatives, so I will try them all out and see.
iamwhoiam wrote: » I imagine it would be difficult to wear a mask all day and a shield would be easier to teach in . I hope you find the right one to suit you and the kids
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Why do you think they were allowed to open earlier than planned
s1ippy wrote: » Why don't the GAA offer their huge halls and volunteers all around the country to help? They'd easily have capacity and personnel to help.
bettyoleary wrote: » Please dont under valuate yourself. Of course your taking on Drs roles. Are you taking blood. Putting up drips I can go on. You are and you shouldnt be doing it
Boggles wrote: » Because they formulated a detailed plan that adhered to the public health advise issued by NPHET. Tony has been pretty clear from the start, it's not up to him to tell industry how they go about opening, it's up to the head of the relevant bodies to formulate their plans around the advice. He has been crystal clear about schools, it's up to the DOE to formulate a plan. That plan so far is "hope" and "feelings". If salons presented Tony with a plan full of "hope" and "feelings" they wouldn't be reopening.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » For example do you think the DOE would have put something more solid forward and put a better effort into plans if their pay pack counted on schools reopening?
Boggles wrote: » More solid? They haven't put anything forward. The reality is Fine Gael kicked the can down the road, maybe setup a meeting with your local representative and have a good old moan at them from 2 meters. The important thing going forward is the next government formulate an actual workable plan for more likely the next 2 years at least.
khalessi wrote: » We are not the laughing stock of Europe. Europe had to deal with a pandemic too and know what it is like, so we are most deifinitely not the laughing stock of Europe.
addaword wrote: » Our children are mingling with each other in summer camps and everywhere else, yet our schools will remain closed for five and a half months and will be the last to re-open in Europe. Our children deserve better from the education system, given its massive budget.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » But if their livelihood counted on it do you think they would have made a more substantial plan like actually made some attempt to make sure schools could open back up?
iamwhoiam wrote: » https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0620/1148657-education/ Once again the DoE lets the most vulnerable children down .
khalessi wrote: » The DoE set this up to fail. Many teachers said this here when we heard the extension of July Provision announced. There are children not eligible because they are in secondary school or too old despite needing assistance everyday. I know lots of teachers who have signed up to do it but no guidelines issued. Some schools dont run it but the teachers do home JP and still problems with that due to guidelines and issues of pay relating to last year and confusion re doing JP with more than one child.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Scotland planning on reopening schools without social distancing. Teachers will still social distance amongst themselves and there will be face coverings and routine testing of teachers. Children here have been mixing for weeks now and the government and Dept of education are still wringing their hands. Despite HSE public health experts saying over a month ago that schools in Ireland are not a high-risk setting for the transmission of coronavirus, and reopening classrooms should be considered as an early measure in lifting restrictions. Businesses got their acts together quickly because they had to in order to survive, but it seems the DOE does not have any independent thought or capability to do the same. They want someone else to tell them what to do, there is no pressure on them to do anything because it doesn't impact their bottom line nor is anyone giving them any real motivation to do something about it.
Dickie10 wrote: » can someone tell me what is july provision i heard about it a few times now.
Murple wrote: » There's a big difference between covering the curriculum and finishing the book. You said in an earlier post that you were given a third of the curriculum to do in 2 weeks but it was in reality to fill in a third of a workbook in 2 weeks. With many classes that I have taught, they might have a lot of a workbook to do but we have done the groundwork through a variety of activities. I often left filling in a workbook as a revision type activity or as independent work. Certain pages never got fillled in in the workbook as the material wasn't covered in a productive way but we would have covered the same topic through copy work, a worksheet, a hands on activity or IWB activity. As for knowing times tables by first class, multiplication hasn't been part of the infant or 1st class curriculum in the last 30-40 years, maybe it was before then. Spelling tests are still done in many schools but there is definitely a move towards doing away with them as they don't do much for actually improving spelling ability.
mcsean2163 wrote: » Apologies, I meant addition tables not multiplication. As for the book, you may be right but if that is the case I find it hard to understand why I had to spend a huge amount of time explaining that subject to my child. I'm hearing here of how hard all the teachers are working during the lockdown, so here's a simple question. Do you think a blog a week and a total of two zoom calls over lockdown is good engagement from a teacher with a class?
rob316 wrote: » I always said it no other country will have as much trouble re-opening the schools as us, due to the teachers unions. They will dig hard to make it as difficult as possible and go as far as looking for hazard pay for their members. Disgusting but unsurprising.
pwurple wrote: » How does someone go about taking it up with the DES? And what would the outcome even be? Hi, here's the last few months back? It's too many cases to even begin to investigate, and even if they did, would have to prioritise special needs for example. We were not permitted to have the books at home (the school had them all destroyed. ). One teacher disappeared completely, never heard from her after march lockdown began (3rd class). The principal said she couldn't force her to engage as her place of work was closed. The other teacher was super. Daily class calls, gave them projects to be working on. From family members experience in other countries, the segregated classes are awful. The children kept in those 2m apart zones are crying every night, miserable and confused. It's unnatural and I hope they don't attempt it here. There's so little of this virus left it should hopefully be a non event in September.
jrosen wrote: » Those who dont feel safe I would assume dont want to return to work
