No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Reggie. wrote: »

Why were the classes freezing

They have windows open. Although I just asked my 2 here and they aren't freezing, windows and doors are open.

_Brian wrote: »

Windows open for ventilation. All windows open in all classrooms across the school. It’s like expecting people to sit day after day in a hay shed and concentrate for hours on end.

I think mine are used to the cold and dont feel it

gozunda wrote: »

Horsebox lights are a law onto themselves lol. Btw are the riding lessons for kids still running?

Yea, I’ve learned soldering all connections is the solution for trailer lights.

Lessons are permitted as long as they are outside.

whelan2 wrote: »

They have windows open. Although I just asked my 2 here and they aren't freezing, windows and doors are open.

Teachers just don't want to work, it can't be any worse than what I went to school in.
Surely they can dress properly
TBF it's not the majority of teachers that are giving trouble if you listen to the interviews on television, only the troublemakers

wrangler wrote: »

Teachers just don't want to work, it can't be any worse than what I went to school in.
Surely they can dress properly
TBF it's not the majority of teachers that are giving trouble if you listen to the interviews on television, only the troublemakers

I remember a teacher telling us that union rules were to stop teaching if the temp was below 17c, he then told us with a big smile on his face that it was 12c. BUT he wasnt stopping

Engineering teacher used to turn on a gas torch to heat his room and the home ec teachers turned on all the ovens

kollegeknight wrote: »

Our engineering teacher used do the same. Unfortunately we don’t have a forge to do the same. But the room is beside the boiler house and usually boiling.


I’ve windows and doors open for ventilation in the classroom.

There is nobody in our place talking about early closing for Christmas. That’s some rogue commentary that we didn’t hear about until twitter had it. Quite the opposite. Trying everything to keep it going.

Students at home suits nobody.

Fairness some of the teachers in the school are giving evening classes as a catch-up which of course they don’t get paid for.

I’ve respect for the job teachers do. There’s allot of knocking for the sake of being knocking someone that goes on among Irish people. Many farmers, particularly those who have done nothing else think they are the only real workers in the world and that everyone else is lazy and useless, particularly if their job is indoors all the time.

NcdJd wrote: »

It's a terrible thing having an old bottle of beer in the house with the label gone off it so can't determine if its still ok to drink or not. I can't get myself to throw it out and rid myself of this tormenting bottle that sits on the desk before me. Do I risk it and face the consequences tomorrow morning or will I get my old fella to taste test.

I'm afraid if I open it I'll drink it anyway no matter how crap it tastes and end up poisoning myself..

Have you had a few already???

If you let the ould fella sample it, you won't have a decision to make.

Half dozen small bottles of Guinness were neglected on a shelf in the old workshop here many years ago.A very good friend of the fathers(who was a martyr for the stuff)was helping a neighbour at silage and passing our gate drawing.He pulled up and came in one time asking for a loan of the car to run to the village.The father knew what was troubling him so offered him one of the little bottles with no label,rusty cap,cobwebs and a layer of dust so thick you could have dropped it on the ground and 'twould have bounced.The father hated what the drink was doing to his friend,so was hoping the bottle might poison him and put him off the gargle for a while.The lad lapped it up and proclaimed it to be the best guinness he had tasted in years and popped in on a regular basis till the shelf was bare and no ill effects were observed.
Drink up and be damned Joules

_Brian wrote: »

Windows open for ventilation. All windows open in all classrooms across the school. It’s like expecting people to sit day after day in a hay shed and concentrate for hours on end.

Reminds of the old style prefabs I had to put up with - freezing in winter, then like an oven during warm spells in May during the exams:(

Birdnuts wrote: »

Reminds of the old style prefabs I had to put up with - freezing in winter, then like an oven during warm spells in May during the exams:(

And that was for years, this ''inconvenience'' will only last until the vaccines are up and running.
Same with the college student whingeing about the lack of social interaction.... get a life eh.
This present scenario isn't going to last long

Yes, yes many of us sat in damp cold classrooms with leaky roofs and mouse holes in the floor.
But life has moved on folks, I wouldn’t do it now and I’m just saying it’s tough going for students and teachers. Nobody wants the schools closed.

As for it being a brief inconvenience, this has spanned across the two academic years of current LC students and is continuing to have a large impact on their lives, if it affects their LC grades it has a direct impact going forward.

straight wrote: »

I'd some laugh at them on newstalk the other day. "Teachers are working 14 hours a day at the moment and their under stress since april". I was rodding a few drains at the time and I nearly got swept away in the river with the height of laughter. Teachers lack of work ethic and resilience are a very bad example for our children.

Not all teachers are like this, yes as in all jobs there are those who take the piss, but there are also those who can't do enough for their pupils.

whelan2 wrote: »

Not all teachers are like this, yes as in all jobs there are those who take the piss, but there are also those who can't do enough for their pupils.

Ya, he was a union spokesperson. I think they probably do more harm than good alot the time.

The FAI are a Farmer's Union.