The problem is that the majority of parents do not want to send their kids back, it isnât some,
In our school it was less than 30% were willing to send them in, I donât think weâre an outlier, but there are solutions.
As things stand it would be robbing Peter to pay Paul, the solution will not be found in a send them all back dictat.
If you have a class of 12 in special ed and youâre teaching to 4 face to face the other 8 will probably suffer as well.
Would a teacher be on their own in a class of 12 or would they have classroom assistants? Schools are open to the children of essential workers here but with no teachers, itâs all classroom assistants looking after things.
It would depend on the type of classroom and the needs of the children.
In a school for children with mild learning difficulties youâd likely have a half an SNA, in moderate and profound classrooms or Autism units youâd have at least 1 SNA at all times.
To answer your question
As much as I dislike him he appears the be the only one countering the zero covid advocates.
Maybe i donât know enough about this but is it really a union problem? When schools were closed and the proposal was to keep the LC going there was uproar. The government backed down and closed all schools, but people were surprised this included special ed services too. Surely the department could have cancelled their bizarre leaving cert plan and kept special ed open? This appears to be a problem entirely of the departmentâs initiation. Foley is the most hapless minister Iâve seen in a long time. Has the department proposed reopening special ed and the unions refused? If so I missed that.
Or at least making the case that its far from easy and mightnât be achievable considering our situation and that there are real trade-offs involved.
His comment about 1 year travel bans was probably over the top but itâs hard to cut through the utter propaganda and sloganeering bandwagon of the Zero Covid crowd over the last couple of weeks to add an element of reality to it.
Iâm not saying send them all back dictat Iâm saying the SNAs should be back in the classroom and the parents who want to send their kids back can. By most accounts online classes for a lot of these kids do next to nothing so itâs not robbing Peter to pay Paul at all really but surely there could be online classes organised for the kids whose parents wonât send them to school and still have a classroom offering for those who are willing?
Yeah, all people hear at the moment is NZ are going to rugby matches we could have that. Absolutely nothing about the cost or practicalities involved.
I donât think thereâs been any discussion of that, SNAs wouldnât welcome that level of responsibility Iâd say, theyâre not trained for it I suppose, but I canât speak for them. It sounds like childcare though more than education.
Itâs not going to be resolved simply because unions are painful, I wouldnât single out the teachers unions in that.
It needs to be micro managed within each school, itâs workable alright and youâd get enough staff in to manage the minority of pupils that youâd have, certainly.
But your earlier post while well intentioned and having people sign petitions etc doesnât reflect the full reality by any means.
People are outraged, rightly so, but without understanding the minutae
@glasagusban and @TheUlteriorMotive must be embarrassed with all the latest mask chatter⌠They were posting up all kinds of nonsense about cloth masks when first introduced here.
Nawful dig at BalbecâŚ
Have masks made a tangible difference anywhere?
They have made Chinese ppe manufacturers very rich
As discussed at the time only medically approved masks have some effect but thereâs , or was, a shortage on them. Governments needed to put an onus on the production of these but shur a bit of tissue over your mouth and youâll be fine was the attitude.
If zero covid means having to go to rugby matches Iâm happy enough to stay in lockdown.
Naked like-grab there. Iâve awarded a like
But has the DATA shown them to be effective? Are they actually doing anything?