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Acting Up- Post Primary

  • 19-09-2022 10:56PM
    #1
    Morris Garren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 820 ✭✭✭


    A query- it has probably been aired before.

    What happens when the Principal asks a teacher to temporarily fill in as a Deputy Principal or indeed, Principal itself? Must they accept or is such a request merely optional? I'm not talking about sick leave or maternity leave but rather situations where the senior management are away for a day or more on business and some poor sod has to man the nuclear buttons...

    Granted, lots of greasy-pole climbers would immediately jump at the chance of occupying the big seats for a day or two but others might be less inclined. Must it be offered to AP1s or Year Heads or is the whole thing done on the hoof, so to speak? I assume there is no money involved either.

    Answers eagerly awaited!



Comments

  • #2
    Alex86Eire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭Alex86Eire


    In our school it always goes to the most senior API and down the list that way.



  • #3
    doc_17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,587 ✭✭✭doc_17


    AP1s do it in our place. No one else is asked or even considered



  • #4
    Random sample
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭Random sample


    APs usually do a half day each in our place. It has happened that an AP2 did it, I don’t know the details of how that came about.



  • #5
    joebloggs32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    Before we got additional deputies the Principal in our place would ask numerous staff to man the office for just an hour each during a free period in case any emergency popped up.

    Obviously it wasn't given to new/younger staff, but i remember doing it before i had a post.



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