Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

LOL.

You claim to trust science and a previous thread you think autism is just an excuse people's behaviour or some sort of fad. Sure..... You trust science when it suits your own opinion.

Can Schools not just take it as a class by class basis- If the teacher is out due to Covid (find a sub), if none available- Class is off for the 10 days that it takes for Teacher to isolate and return.

The amount of people online saying to wait until kids are vaccinated?? I doubt many parents will get their kids vaccinated at all to be honest. Most kids have a mild cold from this.

I think the most difficult situation to cope effectively with will be the schools who are neither fully open nor fully closed.

Trying to plan for a school where you can't predict what staff will be in or out or what number of students will be in or out.

Staff who are in will have to support both in person and streaming for remote teaching at the same time.

At what level of student absenteeism (on a per class, per subject basis) will a teacher live stream a classroom based lesson for the benefit of absent students?

Staff who are out will need to remote stream to the classroom for students who are in and to students who are absent.

Students who are in may have one lesson in person and the next streamed to the classroom with an unqualified supervisor (if one can be found) in the class for insurance purposes. Or do we just not teach that subject for a week or two?

Can our schools support a teaching model which is ad-hoc in person mixed-hybrid and is constantly changing in an unpredictable manner?

I'd hate to have to try organising that! As soon as you have a plan made, it has changed.

So you agree with the Minister. Just so we are clear.

And if the teacher who taught them for the 1st lesson is scheduled to teach a different class for the 2nd lesson or there's nobody available to supervise study classes?

Unions climbing down tonight. Opposition with nothing constructive to say.

Well done Norma Foley.

There will have to be a bit of scheduling / unplanned changes obviously, but its better then closing them all completely isnt it?

In our school the kids attended as usual and the class that the teacher was absent was taught remotely by that teacher at home. He was obviously well enough to do so. Other times there was work sent to the kids to cover in class and they did so.

I think you’re redefining the meaning of the word “safe”?

what’s the danger? We’ve been through Delta, and now we have an even milder variant. So what’s the problem with opening schools?

the omicron wave has already passed through South Africa, there’s no need for hysteria about “cases”. Driving a car is much much more dangerous.

I’m not sure if you’ve read the posts correctly. It doesn’t matter if a teacher is teaching remotely or not, there still needs to be a sub in the classroom. Teaching remotely is nothing to do with this.

Edit: You picked up my post wrong, I was agreeing with you saying the other poster doesn’t know how a school works.

I misinterpreted your post. I thought you were asking if I knew how schools worked.

It's going to be something of a roller coaster for a while.

Well if you think Norma Batty is a great minister for education, you have to be one of her Kerry voters. What has she done for education or schools and children with special needs since she has being in office. Feck all.