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

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  • #5792
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    Onesea wrote: »
    I don't see the issue. Testing is uncovering c19 everywhere.. What is the issue? Just get on with it, hospitals are quiet. It's like a boogie man at this stage

    Are you a school teacher with 30 kids in a room with you?

    Are you a school bus driver with 50 kids on a bus with you?

    Are you an special needs assistant working with kids who spit, bite,punch, can't wear a mask in class?

    Of course you aren't, that's why you don't see an issue. I'm alright Jack.


  • #5793
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Excuse me?

    He said "VERY OBSERVANT BUT A LITTLE CREEPY"


  • #5794
    Lillyfae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Are you a school teacher with 30 kids in a room with you?

    Are you a school bus driver with 50 kids on a bus with you?

    Are you an special needs assistant working with kids who spit, bite,punch, can't wear a mask in class?

    Of course you aren't, that's why you don't see an issue. I'm alright Jack.

    It's an issue like it is for every other person working in an essential role. Formal education is essential. No one is alright, Gerry.


  • #5795
    PCros
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    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Mummy has to get back to the gym and wine o clock. A lot of parents use school as a child minding service and couldn't give a sh1t about their kids education.

    I enjoy debating and conversing with people on Boards...but then you have folks like this that just make ridiculous sweeping statements. :rolleyes:


  • #5796
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,134 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    PCros wrote: »
    I enjoy debating and conversing with people on Boards...but then you have folks like this that just make ridiculous sweeping statements. :rolleyes:

    Idiotic alright.


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  • #5797
    JDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭JDD


    PCros wrote: »
    I enjoy debating and conversing with people on Boards...but then you have folks like this that just make ridiculous sweeping statements. :rolleyes:

    Ah lads, don't feed the troll. Gerry is just looking for a reaction.


  • #5798
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    redunited wrote: »
    This is day one, any good principal would be fully aware of what was going on in their school.

    I doubt emailing would make a difference, just invite lots of bland excuses and a target on my child.
    Really no harm pointing it out unless you think they are such a petty-minded individual. Or your child can just tell one of the teachers. I've done so in my gym and they always appreciate being told. After all keeping people safe is the name of the game.


  • #5799
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Adrianna Gigantic Moth wrote: »
    What an idiotic strategy though. They shouldn’t be opening in the first place, but at the first sign of a spike they should be shut indefinitely.

    No opening again until many weeks in a row without a single case in the entire country or else a vaccine.

    That could be years. Really, years. No physical school for years?


  • #5800
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    niallo27 wrote: »
    He said "VERY OBSERVANT BUT A LITTLE CREEPY"

    What's creepy about it?


  • #5801
    mcgragger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭mcgragger


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Mummy has to get back to the gym and wine o clock. A lot of parents use school as a child minding service and couldn't give a sh1t about their kids education.

    Do you have children or are you just on the windup?


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  • #5802
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    PCros wrote: »
    I enjoy debating and conversing with people on Boards...but then you have folks like this that just make ridiculous sweeping statements. :rolleyes:

    What's ridiculous about it?

    Also you "enjoy debating" yet you feel the need to use rolleyes emoji's

    Checks out.


  • #5803
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    What about the parents who both work?

    I said a lot of parents not all.


  • #5804
    PCros
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    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    What's ridiculous about it?

    Its pure assumption.

    Granted there are a few parents who are wasters but 99% are not.


  • #5805
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    PCros wrote: »
    Its pure assumption.

    Granted there are a few parents who are wasters but 99% are not.

    99%? I'm sorry but's that's just plain inaccurate. There are plenty of parents who couldn't give a hoot about their kids. They want them gone out of their hair for the day and then there are others who let their kids run wild like feral rats on our streets and i can guarantee you it's a lot more than 1% of parents.


  • #5806
    Lillyfae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    I said a lot of parents not all.

    But it's specifically the "Mummies" that want to get back to wine o' clock and the gym.


  • #5807
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,472 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Mummy has to get back to the gym and wine o clock. A lot of parents use school as a child minding service and couldn't give a sh1t about their kids education.

    Fair enough, thats your experience in your circles and area but the majority of parents want their kids back in school for an education. I don't know one parent that doesn't care about their kids education in my peer group.


  • #5808
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    Lillyfae wrote: »
    But it's specifically the "Mummies" that want to get back to wine o' clock and the gym.

    Correct.


  • #5809
    Lillyfae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Correct.

    Do you happen to know what time wine o'clock is, exactly? I'd like to try and be at the gym the next time it's happening so I can join them.


  • #5810
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,249 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Lillyfae wrote: »
    But it's specifically the "Mummies" that want to get back to wine o' clock and the gym.

    I wouldn’t bother . I find when toddlers seek attention they are best left to it !!


  • #5811
    JDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭JDD


    Ah Gerry c'mon now. We're trying to have an actual conversation. You are on the wind up.

    Unless you are actually a geriatric old man harking back to the good old days when the kids behaved, and women did their job and stayed at home. In which case, well done at mastering a computer. And the internet. It's very impressive.

    Otherwise, I call wind up.

    Getting back to the issue at hand, this current infected case probably isn't a good test case, especially if they were only in school for one day while they were infectious.


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  • #5812
    PCros
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    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    99%? I'm sorry but's that's just plain inaccurate. There are plenty of parents who couldn't give a hoot about their kids. They want them gone out of their hair for the day and then there are others who let their kids run wild like feral rats on our streets and i can guarantee you it's a lot more than 1% of parents.

    Every parent I know cares about their kids first and foremost so I suppose its we'll leave it there.


  • #5813
    Locotastic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Locotastic


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Can I ask where you read that please

    It's on the coronavirus section of the HSE website, very informative and tells you what happens in each situation however its is updated regularly as advice is changing constantly so need to keep checking it to see what's what.


  • #5814
    Lillyfae
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Fair enough, thats your experience in your circles and area but the majority of parents want their kids back in school for an education. I don't know one parent that doesn't care about their kids education in my peer group.

    Seeing as Gerry has thanked this, I'm guessing it's gone right over his head :pac:


  • #5815
    Gerry Hatrick
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    PCros wrote: »
    Every parent I know cares about their kids first and foremost so I suppose its we'll leave it there.

    You need to get out in the world so and experience it some. I have and speak from a position of knowledge.

    But if you haven't then yeah let's leave it there.


  • #5816
    PCros
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    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    You need to get out in the world so and experience it some. I have and speak from a position of knowledge.

    But if you haven't then yeah let's leave it there.

    I have two kids myself buddy...


  • #5817
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    Lillyfae wrote: »
    Seeing as Gerry has thanked this, I'm guessing it's gone right over his head :pac:

    No i thanked it because it was a direct answer instead of being called a troll or an idiot because my opinion doesn't concur with another's.


  • #5818
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    PCros wrote: »
    I have two kids myself buddy...

    No problem and i'm glad you most likely love and care about them, unlike many who don't.


  • #5819
    Lillyfae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    No i thanked it because it was a direct answer instead of being called a troll or an idiot because my opinion doesn't concur with another's.

    Directly slating your choice of company and locale though. Good man Gerry, you're a sport.


  • #5820
    markodaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    Mummy has to get back to the gym and wine o clock. A lot of parents use school as a child minding service and couldn't give a sh1t about their kids education.

    Well, going to the gym is better than sitting in a car scouting a school, it must be said.


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  • #5821
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    markodaly wrote: »
    Well, going to the gym is better than sitting in a car scouting a school, it must be said.

    Well in fairness I wasn't but I guess if you read my posts you'll know that.

    But hey you'll get your thanks that's the main thing.


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