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How will schools be able to go back in September? (Continued)

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  • #3302
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Has anything been mentioned re the counties currently in lockdown? Kildare has a way to go yet, so what's happening there.


  • #3303
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    delly wrote: »
    Has anything been mentioned re the counties currently in lockdown? Kildare has a way to go yet, so what's happening there.

    Think it is being announced tomorrow


  • #3304
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    delly wrote: »
    Has anything been mentioned re the counties currently in lockdown? Kildare has a way to go yet, so what's happening there.
    Leaks from the government say NPHET is lifting the restrictions on L/O but Kildare will stay under review. Glynn wouldn't give anything away at the presser regardless. He's being totally undermined, being him must feel be like being hit repeatedly over the head.


  • #3305
    Newbie20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Newbie20


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    Has your night shift not started gal?

    Posts all day and works all night. Sleep not a requirement. The fringe must keep her sustained.


  • #3306
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Looking at all these nice primary and secondary schools they're visiting, nothing like the schools I went too.


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  • #3307
    Leftwaffe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Leftwaffe


    Sunday Sunday wrote: »
    Did anyone catch prime time tonight?

    I get the feeling we are headed for a long drawn out herd immunity strategy after watching it.

    I suppose they can't really come out and say it but it sounds like a slow and long burn approach is where we are headed.

    Ah no the current gov are not near intelligent enough to pursue something like that even covertly.


  • #3308
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    Sammy2012 wrote: »
    I can see us running into them anyway. Children isolating outside would be a huge issue for me. I've been teaching a long time and have had some very ill children at times and putting them outside is heartbreaking

    I don’t agree with putting children outside that’s horrendous however I just wanted to point out isolation room etc applies only to a suspected case of covid 19 - there are 4 symptoms to watch for and a set procedure to follow. Any other type of illness should not he treated in the same way.
    That principal really needs to rethink her approach re temp taking and outside isolation. Who in their right mind will have a child outdoors in the middle of an Irish winter. madness.


  • #3309
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    Scoondal wrote: »
    I was told that my son's pencil case must stay in the classroom. Bringing pencil cases home IS NOT ALLOWED.
    I've more stupidity if anyone wants to know.

    Please give us more examples with your rationale for them being stupid. Start by explaining your issue with pencil cases.


  • #3310
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    A minister resigns (and rightly so) for being at a function with 80 people. There would be no issue if he was a teacher.


  • #3311
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,445 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    Scoondal wrote: »
    I was told that my son's pencil case must stay in the classroom. Bringing pencil cases home IS NOT ALLOWED.
    I've more stupidity if anyone wants to know.

    Why is that stupid? We are doing that as well for the month of September. Lunch and drink are only thing allowed to go in/out of school. To be reviewed at the end of September.


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  • #3312
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    If Kildare stays under lockdown, will schools there open up next week ?


  • #3313
    i_surge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭i_surge


    Redordeadqwwer wrote: »
    Ah no the current gov are not near intelligent enough to pursue something like that even covertly.

    Lol


  • #3314
    combat14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭combat14


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    If Kildare stays under lockdown, will schools there open up next week ?

    yes of course nothing will stop school reopening


  • #3315
    lulublue22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    If Kildare stays under lockdown, will schools there open up next week ?

    On the RTE news app that the school reopening will go ahead in Kildare. Part of the piece re lock downs. Doesn’t make sense to me but anyhow


  • #3316
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,445 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    If Kildare stays under lockdown, will schools there open up next week ?

    I think they still do.


  • #3317
    paddyisreal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭paddyisreal


    lulublue22 wrote: »
    On the RTE news app that the school reopening will go ahead in Kildare. Part of the piece re lock downs. Doesn’t make sense to me but anyhow

    makes no sense at all, county is in lockdown but schools can open up and the meat factories are all back open . No one is going to observe not leaving the county after the latest fiasco either. local businesses are the only one suffering - an absolute joke.


  • #3318
    combat14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭combat14


    paddyisreal wrote: »
    makes no sense at all, county is in lockdown but schools can open up and the meat factories are all back open . No one is going to observe not leaving the county after the latest fiasco either. local businesses are the only one suffering - an absolute joke.

    nothing makes sense MM too busy with sacking his agriculture minister every few days to focus on real problems


  • #3319
    xhomelezz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭xhomelezz


    To all, Norma is looking for extra 1600 buses, so whoever has a spare bus at home give her a call :D

    https://www.thejournal.ie/noma-foley-schools-5181681-Aug2020/


  • #3320
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,445 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    xhomelezz wrote: »
    To all, Norma is looking for extra 1600 buses, so whoever has a spare bus at home give her a call :D

    https://www.thejournal.ie/noma-foley-schools-5181681-Aug2020/

    This one is clueless. Quite how the issue of school buses hadn't crossed her mind before this week is mind-blowing.


  • #3321
    xhomelezz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭xhomelezz


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    This one is clueless. Quite how the issue of school buses hadn't crossed her mind before this week is mind-blowing.

    Would love to have her confidence.


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  • #3322
    Deeec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Deeec


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    This one is clueless. Quite how the issue of school buses hadn't crossed her mind before this week is mind-blowing.

    Several teachers and parents raised the issue of buses on here weeks ago. How Norma and her department didnt think buses were going to be a problem is astounding.


  • #3323
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    BonsaiKitten wrote: »
    That's actually a very smart idea even in non-Covid times. Means that kids will have all the supplies they need in school and shouldn't need to borrow pencils/sharpeners etc.

    If you'd like more insight into how a classroom runs then let us professionals know.

    Not in all cases tbf. Our little one has (among other stuff) very poor concentration, attention span and no planning skills (DCD). We would use the pencil case coming home as means of "stock check" to see if anything needs topped up as she'd never tell us herself.


  • #3324
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    The bus issue is hilarious.

    Obsessing about spacing on a short bus journey that's ferrying the students into essentially a poorly ventilated meat factory with no SD for hours on end.

    Bizarre.


  • #3325
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,445 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    xhomelezz wrote: »
    Would love to have her confidence.

    Brass neck more like. Send her out this morning to try and deflect from the golf nonsense.


  • #3326
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,445 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    Blondini wrote: »
    The bus issue is hilarious.

    Obsessing about spacing on a short bus journey that's ferrying the students into essentially a poorly ventilated meat factory with no SD for hours on end.

    Bizarre.

    All part of the distraction plan.


  • #3327
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Queried wrote: »
    Some poor kids don't even realise they're sick until they've already puked all over the table, bless them. I've cleaned up enough of it in my time :pac:

    So have I !!! And more besides but putting a child outside when not well in a school setting must breach every guidline ever written . If that was happening in my local school I would be writing to Tusla


  • #3328
    deliege
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭deliege


    Hi all, long time lurker here, I enjoyed reading most of the discussion and it helped me ask a few questions to my children's school principal. No answer yet and I'm not expecting one at this point. We got the official school covid response plan this morning and let's say that this bit really puts us off:

    "It is recognised that younger children are unlikely to maintain physical distancing
    indoors so there is no requirement for children from Junior Infants to Second Class
    to maintain a physical distance within their Class Bubble."

    (and in the case of our son, the class is a big bubble, 28 kids).


  • #3329
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    deliege wrote: »
    Hi all, long time lurker here, I enjoyed reading most of the discussion and it helped me ask a few questions to my children's school principal. No answer yet and I'm not expecting one at this point. We got the official school covid response plan this morning and let's say that this bit really puts us off:

    "It is recognised that younger children are unlikely to maintain physical distancing
    indoors so there is no requirement for children from Junior Infants to Second Class
    to maintain a physical distance within their Class Bubble."

    (and in the case of our son, the class is a big bubble, 28 kids).

    I have said it all along. Bubbles and pods exist only on paper and are an insult to people's intelligence.

    THERE WILL BE ZERO SD IN SCHOOLS. NONE.


  • #3330
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,445 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    deliege wrote: »
    Hi all, long time lurker here, I enjoyed reading most of the discussion and it helped me ask a few questions to my children's school principal. No answer yet and I'm not expecting one at this point. We got the official school covid response plan this morning and let's say that this bit really puts us off:

    "It is recognised that younger children are unlikely to maintain physical distancing
    indoors so there is no requirement for children from Junior Infants to Second Class
    to maintain a physical distance within their Class Bubble."

    (and in the case of our son, the class is a big bubble, 28 kids).

    As dictated by the document schools have been given. Remember this sh!treat lies at the door of the department, not schools themselves. We are only implementing what we have been told to.

    And that bubble really isn't that big. We have a class this year with 34 in it.


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  • #3331
    combat14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭combat14


    why cant they use all the tourist buses to ferry the kids to school each day or have school from 7.30am to 5.30pm to stagger start and end times no big deal


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