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Schools closed until February? (part 3)

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  • #9482
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    What is her deal with those pearls? They are hideous.


  • #9483
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    Bananaleaf wrote: »
    She is still saying that the schools are safe.

    Utterly deluded


  • #9484
    hesaidshesaid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭hesaidshesaid


    This interviewer is not doing great. She's shrinking before Norma's teacher tone. Sarah McInerney would be better.

    Norma loves the word 'indeed.'


  • #9485
    Looptheloop30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭Looptheloop30


    And indeed


  • #9486
    Benimar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭Benimar


    Anyone taking a drink every time she mentions ‘partners in education’ will need to pumped out after this interview!


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  • #9487
    Smacruairi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Smacruairi


    Has been told to keep talking about special needs, disgraceful.


  • #9488
    C__MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭C__MC


    We needed Vincent brown on her tonight
    Tame interview


  • #9489
    D.Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    Norma looks like Marge Simpson when she made herself a posh jacket


  • #9490
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Terrible interview on both sides


  • #9491
    Tpcl20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Tpcl20


    She is absolutely shameless.


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  • #9492
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    If only RTÉ had a competent interviewer.


  • #9493
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,735 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Absolute disgrace

    Special needs kids desperately need help and are regressing every day

    Enjoy your time off

    This is boring now.

    To thine own self be true



  • #9494
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    Yeah very nice trick questioning

    Fair play to you

    Where's the trick?


  • #9495
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Bananaleaf wrote: »
    She is still saying that the schools are safe.

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

    Joseph Goebbels


  • #9496
    robfowler78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭robfowler78


    khalessi wrote: »
    robfowler78 wrote: »

    I dont take it personally but people (not you) think that teachers and SNA are robots there for their usage. This is a pandemic, a once in a lifetime occurence and if it is safer to work from home, people should.

    THere are people from all professions working from home. gps only doing consults on the phone, no one calls for them to be on the pup.

    There is a help thread if anyone has a questions as they are teaching and we will do the best to answer it.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058147773

    And I fully agree if you read back I actually asked why the government didn’t put something in place in case schools closed again which let’s face it was always likely in the winter time. Most teachers are been left to do all the online work themselves their is no national plan if you know what I mean.

    As for asking about going to the class room to stream that was hypothetical. Obviously there would be exceptions to this for vulnerable teachers etc as there is in every workplace.


  • #9497
    channelsurfer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭channelsurfer2


    C__MC wrote: »
    We needed Vincent brown on her tonight
    Tame interview

    I think the interviewer is doing a good job. It's obvious she ( Foley)is sticking to the script her civil servants have drilled into her.you can hear her voice raise when she's out under pressure.


  • #9498
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Benimar wrote: »
    Anyone taking a drink every time she mentions ‘partners in education’ will need to pumped out after this interview!

    You could also play this bingo game everytime she says 'schools are safe'

    Think I counted 6 times just in this interview.

    She was going for 7 but interviewer jumped to vaccinces!


  • #9499
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    This is boring now.

    Not boring to parents of special needs children


  • #9500
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    Why doesn't the interviewer ask her if she'd be comfortable sitting in a room with 25 other people for 6 hrs


  • #9501
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,730 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    channelsurfer2 wrote: »
    I think the interviewer is doing a good job. It's obvious she ( Foley)is sticking to the script her civil servants have drilled into her.you can hear her voice raise when she's out under pressure.

    Yeah but she needed to be pushed past that. She’s so angry that she should be tipped over the edge


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  • #9502
    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,462 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    Tpcl20 wrote: »
    Norma Foley throwing teaching unions under the bus completely, claiming that they were all consulted.

    She's repeating hundreds of times that she has had ongoing engagement with unions.

    All three utterly deny this is the case. Up to last week the INTO say they have only met her once.


  • #9503
    CharlieHaghy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭CharlieHaghy


    Norma held her ground, not a hair out of place.


  • #9504
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,270 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This absolute snake who resigned in tatters...Ex HSE HATCHET MAN..mysoginist in the extreme.


  • #9505
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭touts


    I thought the interviewer was going to throw up when Foley said we would have one million people vaccinated by June of next year.


  • #9506
    Endintheclowns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    All three utterly deny this is the case. Up to last week the INTO say they have only met her once.

    Well then she's outright lying along with the schools are safe lie.


  • #9507
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Norma drinking game...

    Schools are safe - shot
    All evidence points to schools being safe - double shot


  • #9508
    Bananaleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    I love how she is using the special needs kids to try make her point. SEN is so underfunded by the dept. The amount of different roles I undertake in relation to SEN that are all unpaid is laughable. Our ASD unit is a storage cabin.

    Parents of SEN students will know this, but I will say it anyway - what is done in schools for SEN students is done by teachers (not politicians), often in their own time (not funded) and always because they care (not because they have their eye on the next election)


  • #9509
    hesaidshesaid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭hesaidshesaid


    Stateofyou wrote: »
    I honestly think it's in the best interest of my health and blood pressure that I don't listen. Glad for the commentary here..

    You were better off away from it.

    There's an argument for everyone to just take a deep breath and acknowledge that every last one of us here is dealing with a multi-layered, unprecedented scenario which has affected us in so many ways. We have all been on high alert since March 12th with a brief respite in the summer. It's a very long time to be dealing with the massive ups and downs we have all encountered. Maybe if we just accept that no one is capable of being their best self at the moment, we can meet each other with a bit more compassion.

    Teachers are doing their best, SNAs are doing their best, parents are doing their best. Maybe even Norma is doing her best?!? Hmmmm.....

    None of us can really believe that this is still going on. But eventually, it has to end. We just need to try to hold on to a bit of sanity and good humour until then.

    Just to add, I was in a very different mood a couple of hours ago trying to figure out the inner workings of Seesaw and listening to a friend of mine rant down the phone at me about the (very significant) efforts her son's school is making to facilitate remote learning. Wine helps.


  • #9510
    khalessi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭khalessi


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    All three utterly deny this is the case. Up to last week the INTO say they have only met her once.

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1347299423857074177

    Also the Unions say they recieved a call telling them what was going to happen but no engagement


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  • #9511
    Lynn Door
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Lynn Door


    Someone, albeit with a strong stomach needs to give her a real pearl necklace.
    Might loosen her up a bit.


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