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How will schools be able to go back in September?

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  • #7292
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,650 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    lulublue22 wrote: »
    There’s a newspaper article re proposed changes on the other thread - if you haven’t seen it already.

    Best summarised by the yerra shure twill all be grand approach.


  • #7293
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,525 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Third Class and under no need for social distancing or bubbles apparently.

    Because children in that age group are only 92% human.

    Government guidance is for pods or bubbles in creches.

    All seems legit.


  • #7294
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    Best summarised by the yerra shure twill all be grand approach.

    Oh most definitely - virus what virus sure local bespoke arrangements will take care of that - move a bit of furniture around be grand !


  • #7295
    combat14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭combat14


    surely students will be required to wear masks In the classroom ..

    if it is not safe to enter shop now for 2 minutes without a mask and they are introducing legislation regarding same .. students will have to wear masks or at least visors while in same room all day......... ???


  • #7296
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    lulublue22 wrote: »
    Oh most definitely - virus what virus sure local bespoke arrangements will take care of that - move a bit of furniture around be grand !

    Hard luck if the furniture is fixed to the wall


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  • #7297
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    All teachers, staff and students should refuse to go back until it is written that masks are a requirement.

    The mixed messages from this incompetent government is infuriating and frightening.


  • #7298
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    khalessi wrote: »
    Hard luck if the furniture is fixed to the wall

    Now now rise to the challenge and get that furniture moved ! It’s vital to the reopening of our schools. :p


  • #7299
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    lulublue22 wrote: »
    Now now rise to the challenge and get that furniture moved ! It’s vital to the reopening of our schools. :p

    I'll get me crowbar :D


  • #7300
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,443 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    khalessi wrote: »
    I'll get me crowbar :D

    Sure when the builders are in removing the wall they can just throw that non-essential furniture into the skip as well!!!


  • #7301
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    khalessi wrote: »
    I'll get me crowbar :D

    That’s the spirit :pac:


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  • #7302
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    Sure when the builders are in removing the wall they can just throw that non-essential furniture into the skip as well!!!

    When they say non essential, does that include my massage chair, hammock and foot bath?


  • #7303
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,443 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    khalessi wrote: »
    When they say non essential, does that include my massage chair, hammock and foot bath?

    And also the wine fridge that facilitates all the gossip and affairs that teachers undertook during the lockdown. No need for those any more!!


  • #7304
    the corpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭the corpo


    khalessi wrote: »
    When they say non essential, does that include my massage chair, hammock and foot bath?

    bloody teachers...


  • #7305
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    So post primary, students and staff can a wear a mask....if they feel like it, social distance 1-2m...where possible. Jesus Christ


  • #7306
    the corpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭the corpo


    Aye, this all seems nuts. My kids will be in 3rd and 5th. If they're sitting around a desk with up to 6 other kids in a badly ventilated classroom they'll be wearing a damn mask...


  • #7307
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    ricero wrote: »
    All teachers, staff and students should refuse to go back until it is written that masks are a requirement.

    The mixed messages from this incompetent government is infuriating and frightening.

    Masks for 5 year olds? For 5 hours a day? Not a chance...it's extremely unfair and unreasonable to ask anyone under the age of 8 or 9 to wear a mask.


  • #7308
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,525 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    the corpo wrote: »
    Aye, this all seems nuts. My kids will be in 3rd and 5th. If they're sitting around a desk with up to 6 other kids in a badly ventilated classroom they'll be wearing a damn mask...

    Kids in 3rd class can't get the virus. 4th class beware.

    #science.


  • #7309
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    According to Irish Independent, masks on buses but optional in school for secondary students.

    What??

    Ya know if masks make communication difficult for teachers, they could just put a speaker and microphone system in every class and let teachers wear masks.


  • #7310
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,525 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    Masks for 5 year olds? For 5 hours a day? Not a chance...it's extremely unfair and unreasonable to ask anyone under the age of 8 or 9 to wear a mask.

    That's why you should limit class sizes and introduce pods.


  • #7311
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,856 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    combat14 wrote: »
    surely students will be required to wear masks In the classroom ..

    if it is not safe to enter shop now for 2 minutes without a mask and they are introducing legislation regarding same .. students will have to wear masks or at least visors while in same room all day......... ???
    Visors on their own have been shown to be of little practical use. Masks should be mandatory indoors.

    You can't nip into the shop for a minute without a mask how can a class be expected to spend a day in a poorly ventilated room unless everyone is wearing a facemask.


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  • #7312
    Boggles
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    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Visors on their own have been shown to be of little practical use.

    That is true.

    But they haven't been tested on excited 5 year olds who exhale 5 liters of spit when they are telling you about what the cat did that weekend.

    If they are going with the "shure be grand" for classes under 3rd, If I were a teacher, KN95 valved mask and visor, whatever the practicalities of trying to teach in that is, I have no idea.


  • #7313
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,443 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    Pods is a load of nonsense anyway. Most primary classes sit in groups anyway as that's what is the norm now.

    Putting a nice new term on what's already standard practice.


  • #7314
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    Pods is a load of nonsense anyway. Most primary classes sit in groups anyway as that's what is the norm now.

    Putting a nice new term on what's already standard practice.

    Practically though trying to ensure 1m between pods will be virtually impossible for most schools. It’s a nod to SD and nothing else.


  • #7315
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    Pods is a load of nonsense anyway. Most primary classes sit in groups anyway as that's what is the norm now.

    Putting a nice new term on what's already standard practice.

    Now where is that nice graphic from months ago by the Scottish lad about how we move them safely to the toilet?

    Isn't it lucky germs cant travel and that the 200+ doctors who sent a letter to the WHO saying Covid19 can be airborne were listened to. That the South Korean study has been noticed. No panic folks the pods will save us as they have worked so well for other school viruses in the past.

    Pfffff who needs masks anyway?


  • #7316
    ginoginelli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭ginoginelli


    This plan is appalling. Neither kids nor teachers are safe with this.

    Shockingly unsafe.


  • #7317
    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    Pods is a load of nonsense anyway. Most primary classes sit in groups anyway as that's what is the norm now.

    Putting a nice new term on what's already standard practice.

    Even in some of our post primary rooms, we would have 4 to 5 around a desk. DoE will be announcing amazing new strategies such as, multiple students sitting at the same desk haha, couldn't make this crap up, god help us all


  • #7318
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,525 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The South Korean Study had nothing to do with schools.

    It was a test of households with confirmed cases. The schools were closed at the time.

    If you hear a politician today cite the South Korean study, alarm bells.


  • #7319
    abacus120
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭abacus120


    The HorsesMouth wrote: »
    Masks for 5 year olds? For 5 hours a day? Not a chance...it's extremely unfair and unreasonable to ask anyone under the age of 8 or 9 to wear a mask.

    I think even for kids from 13 would find it very difficult,my daughter is 15 and will find it hard


  • #7320
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    khalessi wrote: »
    Now where is that nice graphic from months ago by the Scottish lad about how we move them safely to the toilet?

    That video was hilarious as far as I know he did a few others re SD and first aid in the yard.


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  • #7321
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    abacus120 wrote: »
    I think even for kids from 13 would find it very difficult,my daughter is 15 and will find it hard

    My kids wear them no bother when we are shopping and both are under 13.


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