I believe the masks are not legally required - there is no legislation backing them - but the Department of Education have sent out a notice that they are "mandatory".
What legal basis this has I don't know.I'd say one legal challenge would cause serious problems to it.
How are people buying this NPHET bullshít at this stage? Honestly. Dangerous, dangerous advice. Too much ventilation, Jesus Christ..
Does anyone know if an exemption re: mask wearing can be made if a child has had Covid in the past 6months? Plz and thank you
There's no legislation for school uniforms either but they are mandatory in most schools.
No.
At this stage, we all need to do what we can to control Covid.
kids are great. They adapt and the Vast majority will wear masks no problem. There will be some SEN students who will find it challenging but with help and support they can get used to it gradually. If you have e,g, 80% of the kids wearing masks 90 % of the time in class, that will reduce numbers.
i don’t like wearing a mask, kids don’t like it but it’s what we need to do for now. Give the kids a big of credit - so much of their fears and negativity comes from the parents - directly or from overheaing conversations.. positive attitude - tell them they are being called upon now to help control the virus like the adults - you’d be amazed how they will respond..
At last a bit sense in a sea of ,frankly , foolish comment.
Just wear the goddamn masks and get on with it, we are all in this together.
Sometimes I fear for this country with some of the churns inhabiting it.
It's not the kids we should be worried about it's the adults who are angry over stuff they read on Facebooooook about masks. Ironic that it's the kids who will be the grown up ones on this matter.
thats it - everything from the parent diffuses over. The kids are brilliant - it’s the parents that are the challenge!
True. I'm not sure what "Mandatory" means so in this case.
They need to be taken off the stage. Do they ever listen to themselves?! I can't figure out what his point was meant to be, that HEPA filters are no good in larger volumes like classrooms (point taken, but they aren't in the majority of classrooms, so irrelevant), or.....don't open the windows too much? That's just nonsense at this point. He needs to return to academia and stay there.
There are no pre conditions in terms of a child's constitutional right to an education, I was in school with rebels who didn't wear uniform, remember the vice principal pulling them aside regularly but they remained on in school
Kids are easy to indoctrinate , you could hand each of them Maos little red book every day and eventually they would never put it down.
Unfortunately the same can be said for many adults in this country, desperate not to stand out so they will go along with masks which are of no use and only harm to their children
Well why don't you take a case to the High Court and Supreme Court and see how you get on?
Have you any evidence that masks harm children? Anything at all.
Norma foley also said children who can't see the board because their mask is fogging their glasses can get a mask exemption if they get a medical cert.
So, she would like parents to bring short/long sighted children to their GP so the GP can certify that, yes, this child does in fact wear glasses.
Clearly she thinks there's a lot of 9 year olds wearing clear lenses because they are tiny hipsters and just like how it looks.
This is who MM thought was fit to run education during a pandemic.
Just on that subject surely the prescription from Specsavers would do. Why would anyone recommend a visit to a GP at this time when they are flat out and people cant get appointments
I will as soon as some teacher tries to muzzle my junior infant and pre schooler
Absolutely agree. The one thing I can't work out is why MM pulling TH (same applies to the rest if them too ryan, donnelly, foley, nphett, etc) aside & saying...what your saying is ridiculous, doesn't make any sense, etc followed by cop the **** on or you're done!!!
He needs to grow a pair
Seeing as they are of no benefit to kids , I'm not prepared to risk long term effects at the altar of conformity
So as expected, you have zero evidence and you're talking absolute waffle. Good job.
Look forward to reading about it. 👍
How do you produce evidence for something which has been practiced for a very short time ?
My point is why put masks on kids when they don't need them, yours is put masks on as sure it probably will do some good and sure we hope it won't do any harm
Can you tell me what harm it will do?
Where is the children's ombudsman in all if this is it not their job to stand up for the rights of kids.
Well now Norma has created a new problem for herself.
We had no problem with kids wearing masks at 2nd level but now that Norma floated the idea of getting a medical cert now some parents are questioning them wearing them!
Already GPs have said its a farce + they wont be issuing certs for students to not wear masks.
few soundbites from Muldoon earlier in the week if you google him. While he felt for the children & the impact the pandemic has had on them & they cannot be singled out with restrictions, he then talked about the need for kids to "balance social interactions with need to keep schools open" ffs so I switched off after that.
100% agree. Its really hard to get an appointment with a GP at the moment - they are all flat out. The government saying 'get a cert from your GP' shows how out of touch they are with what is happening in the country at the moment.
I don't know but I do know my child will be going maskless on monday on that basis.
It's bizarre , - it's ripping through the system by christmas they'll all be exposed to it if not already- and they are getting natural immunity (hate-speech - I know).
the notion of masks is utter pointless in the current scenario even if you believed masks have any benefit at all.
Could take years to properly assess ,risk reward is horrible here
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