Lillyfae wrote: » This gave me a good laugh.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » You missed your calling, you should have been a psychologist :rolleyes:
pwurple wrote: » The schools are already open. Jammed to the gills with summer arts camps, summer Lego camps, starcamp, summer provision classes. There has been no spike in cases in children. Let's just get on with it.
Murple wrote: » I caught the end of an interview with Prof Luke O' Neill who was asked about the plans for reopening schools. He seemed happy with them and said we were following 'best practice' measures of social distancing, hand washing, wearing masks (think he must have read a different document to the one I read).
mirrorwall14 wrote: » I try not to read or post here as a teacher any more because I will be attacked or undermined no matter what I say. It doesn’t matter how hard I worked, whether I’m worried for me, my students or the extended community it’s all turned into ‘you are lazy and won’t go back to work and should be on the covid payment’. The sniping, nit picking and constant belittling of teaching on boards in general is depressing
KerryConnor wrote: » I agree he didn't seem to know the details of the guidelines.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » Thank God for the other thread where things are teased out without the teacher bashers.
namloc1980 wrote: » Seems to be from parents who can't stand their own children and want them out the door as soon as possible.
blanch152 wrote: » It is amazing to see so many well-educated teachers willing to ignore the professional advice from NPHET and give in to their irrational fears. The risk in schools is low. The sooner they are back, the better.
froog wrote: » Thats not true at all. There are tons of teachers in this country working in other disciplines cause they cant get teaching work, or working part time sub teacher hours where they can get them.
am_zarathustra wrote: » Have you ever been involved in hiring in the greater Dublin area? We haven't had the correct number and subject mix of teachers in 5 years starting September. Irish teachers are rarer than a statistician in the DOE. We will come back again this year down at least a teacher. Every other school I know is the same. The 2000 people on the TC registration are almost exclusively abroad or retired teachers who maintain the number so they can be paid to correct exams (about 10-15%) of all SEC correctors. I didnt know a single qualified teacher without a job in Dublin last year, we had two people with degrees just in supervising as we couldn't get any teacher of any subject. If you were reading any of the comments from actual teachers here you would know that. Factor in the rake of retirements in October and the idea that there are 1000 teachers in the country is a joke. Population wise a third would need to be in Dublin at least......we couldn't find one last year
Deeec wrote: » Im a parent not a teacher. I joined this thread because I was annoyed at how parents were portrayed as lazy/useless when it came to homeschooling. I dont agree with teacher bashing but I also dont agree with parent bashing. I believe there are very very few bad teachers out there. I think the teachers on here all have very valid points - the plan to go back to school by the DOE is very poorly thought out and is doomed to fail. A part time return to school would be a much better and safer approach - I think this have facilitated a safer return for everybody.
mirrorwall14 wrote: » We have had at least three (off the top of my head) unqualified teachers with just a degree teaching full timetables across maths and Irish. There was literally no applications for the roles. My first maternity they got teachers. By three years later when another maths teacher got pregnant there was one applicant. He left six weeks later for a more secure job (couldn’t blame him). We were without a teacher for an extended period, the TYs has no teacher I think until after Christmas. The timetable had to be redone to try and jiggle teachers and our VP had to go back into the classroom to try and get us through. Getting subs and even applicants for jobs is insanely difficult
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » This is what's really saddening about this whole thing and the attitudes towards kids in this thread. The children are treated like subhuman pawns and merely an afterthought. "snot monsters", "harbingers of death" to mention a few recent descriptions and God forbid a hurt child might want to seek comfort from their teacher, they'll be told to step back (prior to virus might I add). It's eye opening and saddening state of affairs from people who chose to be mentors to these kids in the first place. But no let's just cover up their faces and keep them the hell away, sure what say should they have in it. Teachers might need to learn a thing or two from the very children they teach.
blanch152 wrote: » The risk in schools is low.
am_zarathustra wrote: » Empty buildings in general have low infectivity. Not a single case for months in a nightclub either ....
wirelessdude01 wrote: » Fauci in The US made that very point yesterday. Schools have been closed so they have an extremely low dataset from which to try and project or document anything with regards to children. Openly said that schools will be forming part of an 'experiment'.
timmy_mallet wrote: » Everything since those lockdowns has been an experiment. It's a little disingenuous to suggest schools are any more or less of one than opening restaurants, for example, or kids football training and playing matches again.
