And what do you suggest to do. Close the schools again. Give me a break
I'm subbing in schools atm and the staffroom today was full of talk about schools closing the 10th or 17th December instead of the 22nd.. I really hope they don't close them after Christmas.......
Won't happen. Either way.
Its the same in my kids school - lots of kids out sick. It doesnt necessarily mean they have covid though. Colds etc are spreading rapidly too and as we all know we must keep our kids at home if they show any symptoms. Kids are picking up every bug and virus going this year - its not just covid.
People hearing high absense's from schools are wrongly jumping to the conclusion that all the kids out must have covid! - which isnt the case at all. Since us parents are no longer notified when there is a case in our kids classes I ask my kids daily what kids are out in their classes - high numbers are out sick but kids are back to school in 2/3/4 days. Luckily no kids have been out for 2 weeks - I know we are very lucky with this as its not the case in every school.
There has recently been three cases in my sons classroom. None of kids were sick, the parents initially caught cases via antigen testing. On some days this year there has been over half the class missing, but most of them had colds and were back after a couple of days. My son has missed at least 12 days of school this year due to colds. Every family I know is having same issue. Kids are missing loads of school and the ones susceptible to colds are catching repeated colds one after another. My own son hasn’t caught this many bugs since he first started in crèche all those years ago. It makes me wonder if lockdown had an effect on his immune system.
Its not just covid going around right now.
I've heard the talk of schools closing the 17th in my school too, but I recall the same thing last year. Doubt it'll happen.
I'd rather they closed early and reopened on time after Christmas.
However I still expect the same media circus of "will they /won't they/should they/shouldn't they" in the first week of January.It is absolute Groundhog day at this stage, you can write the script.
Same rumours last year.
Some schools will be doing exams up until the 22nd so if they were true you'd think that would be communicated early next week.
It won't happen but they can't just drop an announcement to close at the last minute.
Just incase anyone is taken in by this nonsense, have a read about the CEO of the Principa Scientific International. Amongst other things he is a climate change denier. Put bluntly this organisation is not reputable and is peddling rubbish.
Climate deniers and anti-vax. Not scientists.
https://www.desmog.com/principia-scientific-international/
From the link:
In 2013, PSI also began to promote unfounded claims that wind turbines make people sick and that childhood vaccines were “one of the largest most evil lies in history.” [9]
Here is a study conducted by the Centre for Disease Control in America. It reports on the effectiveness of mask wearing in schools. They work.
This place really gone to the dogs now.
Yep, main thread is also unreadable due to downright stupidity. Indistinguishable from the anti-everything paranoid insights of the facebook fools.
Genuine question, do mods not get alerts about reported posts anymore or have they taken a different approach to moderation now?
They're having massive trouble seeing reports ever since they updated the site. I'm having a similar issue on another section of the forum where trolling and clear rule breaches most of the time go unpunished.
Oh ok I actually hadn't realised that there was an issue, I thought it was some sort of weird policy change and was wondering why so much was being let go.
Heard some news reports on rte yesterday from South Africa stating there was a large spike in children getting hospitalised with this Omicron variant, hopefully that's not true and is just bullshit pushing kids to get vaccinated.
With all due respect, there are far too many unqualified idiots embedded in social media threads.
Idiots throwing out all sorts of ‘claims’ and ‘theories’ and ‘ ‘conspiracies’ with nothing whatsoever to back them up, and no qualifications to even give their rubbish the slightest veneer of credibility.
I will always take the qualified opinion over that of grunts just horsing out bulldust for the sake of it.
That would seem to be common sense, even if I don’t like what the qualified opinion is at times.
We need to realise that there seems to be a rump of the hard right well embedded out there who’s agenda is to shout down everyone.
Media have ,in my opinion, huge influence in all this, RTE attacking everything, newspapers with lurid headlines to attract idiots who are ‘click baited’ to buy them.
Very little positivity, very little balance, the hurler on the ditch being supported over those who are in the trenches fighting.
I despair a bit for this country, to be honest
The Taoiseach has rejected the 12 million euro claim. He said the installation of a HEPA filter in every classroom in the country would have cost 80 million euro.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-11-30/3/#spk_220
Better to spend that money paying panto actors to be on the dole for Christmas.
Or spending million on a huge poster with Level 1-6 in full colour for every household .
Yeh that went well didnt it
Or imprisoning a Belgian fridge repairman.
I don't think the performing arts got up to 80 million euro, to be honest!
Youre right, Catherine Martin said there was 25 million in the pot for them.
Not an unsubstantial amount all the same.
That's because the Government are ethically bound to ignore and multiply any quote they got. Remember being shocked a few years ago when the Dept of Ed spent almost 23m for the Harolds Cross Greyhound site, when the valuation had been 12m...
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/construction/bord-na-gcon-to-use-6m-from-harold-s-cross-sale-to-improve-other-dog-tracks-1.4044458
I'm sure I remember similar for the Shellybanks site
I hear on NT there a few mins ago that the Department has revised the guidelines to schools to say that children should not be excluded for not wearing a mask, but rather that the school should engage "pragmatically and sensitively" with the parents.
That's the end of that so.. removed without actually removing it. Sounds like someone in the Department got legal advice. Should never have been introduced in the first place.
I know of one child on the spectrum, who will now be home schooled, because while she has an exemption from wearing a mask, she doesn't want to be the only one not wearing a mask.
Unintended consequences - kids don't think like adults.This is the developmental stuff we have all forgotten as adults.Decision makers need to really think about the necessity of these rules.
Our primary school has now ceased homework for the remainder of term.
They were always homework-lite, but this is taking the proverbial.
They reduce outbreaks among those unlikely to be seriously affected?
Why?(to both points -if you don't mind me asking)
They provide a calming influence for those led by the hysteria and hyperbolic nonsense that characterises virtually our entire response to this "crisis" and the media coverage/level of "debate" on same.
