Now, teachers are more likely to fear parents than the other way around.
A protest is being held at the Dáil today by the Irish Education Alliance which represents both teachers and parents
You don’t attract more people into a job by making that job a little bit more painful
‘Scapegoats’
“Don’t send a letter home…you don’t want 30 parents shouting at you.”
“These findings should reassure those who are engaged in face-to-face teaching,” it found.
Teachers are being advised to introduce transgenderism to children in Junior Infants in new guidelines from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO). The NCCA have also told teachers of Junior and Senior Infants (where children are typically between 4 and 6 years old) to tell schoolkids […]
How’s your school year going? Whether your kids are homeschooling, distance-learning, or doing some form of hybrid schooling, chances are you’ll be teaching your children to some extent. By default parents are teachers, especially in these uncertain times. So today, I’d like to share a little pedagogy with you, because after all, your teaching style […]
If I was a male teacher in Carlow Presentation College, I would lawyer up. The lazy, dishonest and vindictive reporting and commentary around wearing school uniforms in the school has caused male teachers to be described as “paedos” and “sleazebags” who needed to be attacked and confronted. What did the terrible male teachers of Carlow Pres do? Nothing, actually. […]
Last week, we published a story about mounting concerns amongst teachers that the Government’s public spin about the safety of schools is not matched by the realities on the ground. Teachers across the country told us, here at Gript, that they felt that there is a concerted effort by the authorities to artificially depress the […]
To listen to the Government, one might think that the latest surge in Coronavirus cases was coming from just about everywhere except for schools. Talk to teachers, however, and you’ll find that there is great concern that many of the cases are connected to education, and are not being reported. Gript spoke to four teachers […]
Next week, just days before the general election, secondary school teachers across the country will go on strike to protest against continued pay inequality for their profession. In Ireland in 2020, we still have the objectively absurd situation where two people, teaching the same subject, in the same school, for the same number of hours, […]