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Covid 19 Part XXXI-187,554 ROI (2,970 deaths) 100,319 NI (1,730 deaths)(24/01)Read OP

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  • #722
    SuperRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭SuperRabbit


    is_that_so wrote: »
    I don't know the answer. Been quite a while since I did it, even then we had about 25 in the class. With different levels I guess it would be even more fragmented.

    In our school if the class wasn't full it wouldn't run. It needed at least 25 to run but it was almost always 30 students. They wouldn't (couldn't) hire a teacher to teach only 15 people

    If you didn't have enough for one level you'd combine them, so the teacher had to teach hounours and pass at the same time, going back and forth between them and giving extra classes after school for the honours students

    Sometimes a student wouldn't get all their optional subjects, but made sure everyone always got their first choice of subject

    Teachers are the most expensive thing in the educations system, you wouldn't run a class with 15 students, I assume that hasn't changed


  • #723
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Supercell wrote: »
    If the shinners are calling for partition then its off the fupping scales bad. Honestly at this stage think we could use them in charge , they couldn't possibly be any worse than MM and co at the wheel.

    Taking 15 of us and another 50 as advisers and we'd not do any worse


  • #724
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,100 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Communications and phone repair is essential and was open during the lockdown last lockdown proper

    What about bookies, tanning salons and cafes are they essential or are they closing?


  • #725
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Communications and phone repair is essential and was open during the lockdown last lockdown proper

    Did we ever have a lockdown proper?


  • #726
    boardise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭boardise


    Tpcl20 wrote: »
    Varadkar saying the Health Service being great doesn't prevent people getting covid in the first place.

    Sounds very much like blaming people who have contracted the virus.

    Maybe he should look at two members of his own government and blame them personally too.
    Baseless politically motivated comparison.
    Not possible to apportion blame in an individual case since some people covered up the fact that they were in a high risk situation which those around them could not know about...or they did not restrict movements as directed.
    That's different to someone ,say, who moved around in a crowd without a mask and was infected.


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  • #727
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    ednwireland wrote: »
    i can see getting rid of click and collect been the end for a lot of small business

    Delivery people are going to be on the pig's back, one of the few to gain.


  • #728
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,100 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Did we ever have a lockdown proper?

    Nope. Not wuhan style anyway.


  • #729
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Tpcl20 wrote: »
    giphy.gif

    Ffs :D

    "Do ye like salads, do ye?"


  • #730
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    SuperRabbit wrote: »
    In our school if the class wasn't full it wouldn't run. It needed at least 25 to run but it was almost always 30 students. They wouldn't (couldn't) hire a teacher to teach only 15 people

    If you didn't have enough for one level you'd combine them, so the teacher had to teach hounours and pass at the same time, going back and forth between them and giving extra classes after school for the honours students

    Sometimes a student wouldn't get all their optional subjects, but made sure everyone always got their first choice of subject

    Teachers are the most expensive thing in the educations system, you wouldn't run a class with 15 students, I assume that hasn't changed

    Why wouldn’t you run a class with 15 kids. Sitting at home or in school the teachers are still on the payroll.


  • #731
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,567 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    So we can still get takeaway pints?

    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1346868299536228354?s=19


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  • #732
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Idiot.

    More like a socially distant headbutt


  • #733
    stephenjmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,450 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Garda measures
    https://twitter.com/CormacJOKeeffe/status/1346871232487186433?s=19


  • #734
    AutoTuning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭AutoTuning


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Delivery people are going to be on the pig's back, one of the few to gain.

    Amazon is going to make an absolute fortune. There’s also no VAT on items from Amazon.co.uk due to a Brexit loophole if they’re valued under €22


  • #735
    Pcgamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭Pcgamer


    People on about closing off licenses really?

    If off licenses were shut the hospitals would not be able to cope. Thousands upon thousands of alcoholics would need medical supervision to detox.

    Riots would happen and break ins would happen all over the country. Suicide rate would jump through the roof.

    Happy though the take away pints are done away with, should never of been allowed.


  • #736
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Teachers have given up before even trying to make a safe plan. Disappointing attitude.


  • #737
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Nope. Not wuhan style anyway.

    Neither will we.


  • #738
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,473 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    There will be war over the Leaving Cert decision. Unworkable. Teachers will say same. Foley is very very poor.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #739
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,216 ✭✭✭khalessi


    is_that_so wrote: »
    It's not primary. LC would mean different teachers.

    Everywhere but in schools it says considered a close contact if 15 minutes in company of someone who tests positive. LC students are adult sized some are size of rugby players, but yeah safe.:rolleyes:

    We have now no track and trace interesting experiment


  • #740
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Funsterdelux wrote: »
    More like a socially distant headbutt

    :D

    Reminds me of that episode of Mr.Bean when he's doing Karate.

    "One big bow and then the throw"


  • #741
    tom1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,100 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Pcgamer wrote: »
    People on about closing off licenses really?

    If off licenses were shut the hospitals would not be able to cope. Thousands upon thousands of alcoholics would need medical supervision to detox.

    Riots would happen and break ins would happen all over the country. Suicide rate would jump through the roof.

    Happy though the take away pints are done away with, should never of been allowed.

    Are we this dependent on alcohol?
    Hardly.


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  • #742
    SuperRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭SuperRabbit


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Why wouldn’t you run a class with 15 kids. Sitting at home or in school the teachers are still on the payroll.

    ... they worked out during the summer how many teachers they needed to hire that year for the number of students they had

    rather than having two classes with 15 students you combine the classes into one so you only have to pay one teacher and you only have to hire the one teacher. That's why some students don't get their options, that's why small schools offer fewer options

    If there are 46 people wanting to do home economics then there is only one home economics class, you don't run one class of 30 and one of 16 (or two of 23) because that's an extra teacher.


  • #743
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    Really ? Most pay by week no ? Our creche is a weekly fee anyway

    No ours goes out first working day of the month so went out Monday


  • #744
    Funsterdelux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    MOR316 wrote: »
    :D

    Reminds me of that episode of Mr.Bean when he's doing Karate.

    "One big bow and then the throw"

    Or when he meets the queen


  • #745
    AutoTuning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭AutoTuning


    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    There will be war over the Leaving Cert decision. Unworkable. Teachers will say same. Foley is very very poor.

    I could see industrial action being likely over this.


  • #746
    Tpcl20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Tpcl20


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What happens to children in leaving cert with underlying medical conditions?
    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    They stay at home and distance learn? This is nothing new actually.
    Tpcl20 wrote: »
    The DoE has a directive specifically saying that there is no provision for students who require distance learning due to medical conditions.

    https://twitter.com/AddressingLife/status/1336669422501629953
    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    How have children with Cystic fibrosis managed in the past?
    Tpcl20 wrote: »
    During covid18 and 17?
    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    You think Covid was the only threat to a person with CF?
    Tpcl20 wrote: »
    It's immensely bigger risk for somebody with CF when the health service is collapsed due to a pandemic versus if they caught something like a flu during the normal course of things. Especially due to the unknowns in how this will impact individuals.

    Don't you think that people who have underlying conditions should have access to education or something? Weird hill to die on.
    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Nonsensical response tbh. By your logic if some can’t none should.

    No, I don't think that. People should have access to education if they have underlying conditions or family with same. I have quoted the relevant posts to show that at no point did I make any suggestion even resembling what you're claiming. I won't be responding to further posts as I have made my point and it's clear what your position is.


  • #747
    Psychedelic Hedgehog
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    pc7 wrote: »
    No ours goes out first working day of the month so went out Monday

    We’ve been told our January fee can be used against the next month that the creche is back open.


  • #748
    MOR316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Pcgamer wrote: »
    Happy though the take away pints are done away with, should never of been allowed.

    Well, we don't know that.

    Bars are off licences so they'd have to change the law then, which ain't gonna happen.

    Can't stop them selling them as far as I know.


  • #749
    Pcgamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭Pcgamer


    tom1ie wrote: »
    Are we this dependent on alcohol?
    Hardly.

    Yes, a lot of people are. Alchololics require medical supervision to detox Other people use it as a crutch.

    Suicide rates would soar. I don't think you have any idea of the amount of alcoholics in Ireland.

    Welcome to the Real world.


  • #750
    grinder23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭grinder23


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Communications and phone repair is essential and was open during the lockdown last lockdown proper

    They were closed in 1st lock down until 18th May


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  • #751
    eggy81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭eggy81


    Are large scale foreign investment developments avoiding these restrictions. We’ve been told the rumour is we are staying open.


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