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

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  • #4712
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    Nice pearl necklace.


  • #4713
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,249 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    To be fair , in the first instant, I am aware of , unprecedented times , to be fair , at the times we are in , bla bla bla bla

    Ms Foley managed to say nothing at all


  • #4714
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    she will be gone by October


  • #4715
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,654 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    "The [calculated grades] model is blind to gender" what's this now...?


  • #4716
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    To be fair , in the first instant, I am aware of , unprecedented times , to be fair , at the times we are in , bla bla bla bla

    Ms Foley managed to say nothing at all

    She’s been well schooled by her brave and fearless leader


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  • #4717
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Pushing everything to NPHET and department of health....she is brutal....series of sound bites over and over

    This interviewer is useless.

    A show like this needs someone like Sarah Mcinerney


  • #4718
    Gentleman Off The Pitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gentleman Off The Pitch


    Interviewer has tried to nail her a few times now and failed


  • #4719
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,654 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    She did well, answered nothing


  • #4720
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    So basically they are winging it.


  • #4721
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    She is like a robot


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  • #4722
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »
    Interviewer has tried to nail her a few times now and failed

    Im sure shes happily married


  • #4723
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Norma Foley being allowed free reign on Prime Time, just describing these terrible conditions school staff are facing with impunity and no contention from the host. So many questions and issues arising and she has been clearly in hiding taking PR courses from Mícheál about how to talk down to people who call her out on any of her absolute bullsh!t.


  • #4724
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,249 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    She did well, answered nothing

    To be fair she is cognistant that its a health service matter !


  • #4725
    Benimar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭Benimar


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    she will be gone by October

    They will all be gone by October the way things are going.


  • #4726
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    She had feck all pearls of wisdom for us anyways!


  • #4727
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,650 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Christ sent home for no mask, it's a lunatic idea to begin with.

    Contact Jim Corr. He will understand you.


  • #4728
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »
    I'm no fan of the way they've gone about the schools re-opening, but I can't see a whole lot wrong with stating public health officials determine what happens in each case?
    The point is she should be working with public health etc and know what the procedures are...she had no clue a series of very simple questions


  • #4729
    Gentleman Off The Pitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gentleman Off The Pitch


    gmisk wrote: »
    The point is she should be working with public health etc and know what the procedures are...she had no clue a series of very simple questions

    I suspect she knows alright but also knows she could get away with stating it's a public health issue


  • #4730
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »
    I suspect she knows alright but also knows she could get away with stating it's a public health issue
    Would it not be helpful to parents watching to know what they are maybe?
    It's not the third secret of fatima!
    Could she not share the information with the class?


  • #4731
    helpful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭helpful


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    To be fair she is cognistant that its a health service matter !

    In the first instance anyway haha


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  • #4732
    Icsics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭Icsics


    Very well versed on the sound bites & pr spin, the reality in schools is very different


  • #4733
    Scoondal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scoondal


    Will Norma Foley resign or will she be sacked ?


  • #4734
    Gentleman Off The Pitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gentleman Off The Pitch


    gmisk wrote: »
    Would it not be helpful to parents watching to know what they are maybe?
    It's not the third secret of fatima!
    Could she not share the information with the class?

    Agreed, as a parent I want to know these details too, but for politicians and officials it's all about arse covering now, and saying as little as possible and trying not to saying something that will come back to haunt you when the **** (most likely) hits the fan, is part of that. The interviewer let us down really


  • #4735
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    What questions would everyone like to have seen asked in the interview with Norma?


  • #4736
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    I would like

    1. A clear answer on the number of students or teachers allowed meet up. We are apparently not allowed more than 6 in our houses, 50 in the "real" world but somehow staff meetings of 50+ staff or assemblies of 100+ students may be allowed? Mental
    2. An explanation as to the U-turn on just outright telling students all information on the LC they promised teachers they wouldn't release. We did the grades in good faith as to the procedures they put in place and they just threw them out the window
    3. A straight answer on how many schools in the country currently cannot meet the requirement for 1m. I know of at least one.
    4. A proper procedure as to EXACTLY what the procedure is when there is a diagnosed case. Particularly at second level where bubbles could be 150 students and large groups of staff

    Thats just to get started


  • #4737
    Queried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Queried


    Just catching up on Prime Time, watching the tour of the school at the start of the show. I'm just wondering if other teachers have been able to implement the type of distancing shown in the clip, where pretty much all of the children are 1m from each other? It would be a lot less stressful if this were possible, I'm just wondering if many have managed this?


  • #4738
    grind gremlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭grind gremlin


    Queried wrote: »
    Just catching up on Prime Time, watching the tour of the school at the start of the show. I'm just wondering if other teachers have been able to implement the type of distancing shown in the clip, where pretty much all of the children are 1m from each other? It would be a lot less stressful if this were possible, I'm just wondering if many have managed this?

    The tables were pushed against the wall with a chair wedged between the wall and the table.... not sufficient space in which they could sit.... either the table is pushed away from the wall meaning less space between rows or one child sits at the outside and the other moves their seat to behind the desk. They are no longer a meter apart once seated....


  • #4739
    Leftwaffe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Leftwaffe


    Queried wrote: »
    Just catching up on Prime Time, watching the tour of the school at the start of the show. I'm just wondering if other teachers have been able to implement the type of distancing shown in the clip, where pretty much all of the children are 1m from each other? It would be a lot less stressful if this were possible, I'm just wondering if many have managed this?

    I arranged our school classrooms. There is less than 1m shoulder to shoulder in our rooms, probably around 80cm to 70cm in reality. The further st I could get the teacher away was around 1.3m approx. This is in the standard size rooms in these new build schools (7mx7m), all furniture removed, etc.

    The clip shown in the primary school where they have an rea where the teacher is 2m away from students is only achievable in about 3 of our 40 odd classrooms.

    We're packing more students into the overflow than what's allowed anyway so we just have to plough on I suppose...


  • #4740
    Queried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Queried


    grind gremlin wrote: »
    The tables were pushed against the wall with a chair wedged between the wall and the table.... not sufficient space in which they could sit.... either the table is pushed away from the wall meaning less space between rows or one child sits at the outside and the other moves their seat to behind the desk. They are no longer a meter apart once seated....

    I know what you mean, well noted! I didn't notice that myself, feel like I have to watch it again :pac:


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  • #4741
    skippy1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭skippy1977


    Queried wrote: »
    Just catching up on Prime Time, watching the tour of the school at the start of the show. I'm just wondering if other teachers have been able to implement the type of distancing shown in the clip, where pretty much all of the children are 1m from each other? It would be a lot less stressful if this were possible, I'm just wondering if many have managed this?

    If you rewatch the clip...some of the chairs where literally wedged against the wall....you couldn't get a child in to the seat??

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