Civil Servant Covid Recognition

You don't have to say anything. I find in these situations it's better to be honest. I don't see why you wouldn't share the situation with your son. Chances are everyone knows anyway. His friends probably know why your son isn't in school and have told everyone else.

And just to be clear, you're speaking for ALL Mammies there, and you're confident that there are no Mammies out there with different opinions to you?

BTW, a lack of disagreement from others to the bossy, cliquey mammies who run these groups does not mean that everyone agrees. It just means that others can't be arsed with explaining concepts like privacy and confidentiality.

Chances are you have no idea about what you don't know. Don't assume that everyone blabs about private medical information.

Andy you seem to have a HUGE chip on your shoulder. Relax a little!

We share relevant information which is helpful to each other. Parents also chat at the school gates, at birthday party and play date picks ups and drop offs which isnt any different really to whats app groups. Most people dont have a problem discussing their children - the good and the bad. If someone wants to remain private noone has a problem with that either - most people want to discuss stuff though.

Try talking to your kids friends parents sometimes - you may actually find it helpful. You may actually then understand more about real life and not be talking nonsense on boards.

Some people talk, some people don't. I'm very familiar with the school gate scenario, though mine are older now. I'm also very familiar with the cliques that emerge and the parents who don't get invited to the coffee chats and who's kids don't get invited to playdates. WhatsApp group traffic are not a measure of consensus.

I wasn't the one who brought up 'mammies', so take out your condescension on the other poster.

Just wondering what kinda work you did during the pandemic?

The government decided to throw money at the pandemic and weren't pushed about the result. They should have stopped the PUP when they reopened the country. Places are closing down now because they can't get staff. These issues were flagged from day 1 by staff working with the Department.

Your employer’s position on working beyond contracted hours seems clear.

Are you saying then that the comments here and elsewhere from parents etc are lies? Do you also think a principal is going to say anythng other then they were all working?

How much more actual facts do you need than people telling you actually happened? Unless of coure you're calling then lairs?

The fact that many kids did not receive tuition during times when schools were closed due to Covid is not an assumption, nor is the assumption that teachers who did nothing for their students were actually working a fact. What is an unarguable fact is that many kids did not receive tuition, and as tuition is the clearest expression of a teacher doing the job they are paid to do, it is a very fair assumption that they were not in fact doing their job.

I’m assuming you can understand that Andrew, unfortunately though, that is not a fact, so here is a simpler question: If an active teacher isn’t teaching/communicating/ supporting/preparing their students, whatever way you want to describe their work practices, they are not doing what they are tasked/paid to do, what other work would they be doing?

My god. People have posted their own actual experiences here and that's still not good enough for you?

Again there here for you to see but you just chose to ignore them.

Anyway this is going nowhere so i'm not going to reposed to you anymore. It;s here for you to see if you don't want to see it well that's your own problem.

In the case of illness, the Principal or teacher would inform students/parents of their absence, irrespective of the 50 other ridiculous options you can think of, the function of a teacher is to provide tuition, if they are not doing it, the parents/students should be informed why.

Would you expect parents/students to accept being told that a teacher who didn’t show up for class for 3 months and left students without tuition was “doing other duties”? Of course not, this is more obfuscation.

Parents/students don't get to be informed 'why' of anything. The 'why' is none of their business. Yes, they would normally be advised if there is an absence, and who knows what happened in the cases mentioned above. Let's not run away with ourselves on one-sided stories by people with an axe to grind.

Don't waste your time no matter what you say he'll never accept it

This really is ridiculous.

Of course a principal would have to inform parents if their kids were left without a teacher for 3 months, they would not divulge the nature of the illness, only that the teacher is unable to attend class. Having had school going kids for 25 yrs, they of course were informed when teachers were absent,

To think that a teacher could be doing “other duties” for 3 months leaving kids without tuition, and still be considered teaching is just bonkers.

Please tell us all, reassure us that you are not a teacher.

I hate this new site, I really miss the ignore tab.