Why do teachers hate special needs children?
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Norma is a stubborn Kerry mule. I’d say she’s a fucking nightmare to work with
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It’s some balls. I was talking to the school principal yesterday evening and again this morning, he’s a decent sort with a great unit in the school and he more or less told me straight up, he had severe reservations about it all and was expecting a government u-turn on it today. He was spot on.
There’s always someone worse off than you are. My young fellow settled back in no problem in September after the 6 month lay off. Young fellow in his class developed severe anxiety during lockdown and wouldn’t leave the house. Couldn’t get him back into school, only got him back in mid November. I bumped into his mother at the weekend, she was saying he was flying it once he was back in and over Christmas and was ready to go back this week. Her big fear is another long absence from lockdown and his anxiety comes back and can’t him back in again.
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They just hate work and doing what they’re paid to.
I don’t think this is true. Most have long wait times for appointments as they can only see half the patients they would normally get through.
Ah I think you know he might have been speaking in jest there the old codger
There are 100,000 nurses, pharmacists and GPs in the country. There must be a fair few retired nurses pharmacists and GPs under 70. Out of all that say we get 10,000 vaccinators who do 8 people a day 7 days a week. Half a million a week. Scale down if vaccines not available. Scale up when they are.
The roll out of a vaccine should not be limited by numbers of vaccinators. If we accept that then forget about anything else they say about this being the biggest emergency the state has ever faced.
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There’s no need for you to hang on to the grudges against your old teachers mate. Their job is to get the maximum potential out of each kid and look at you now, you’re the best fucking fork lift driver in that factory.
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Don’t know about that. They are only seeing emergency patients are they? Iv had regular check up cancelled a few times over past 6 months because of restrictions anyway
I had a check up in summer. Dentist said they were stopped from everything in lockdown except emergency stuff as they use aerosols/suction in dentists. Guidance then changed to allow them open but require a gap between patients and cleaning of everything and change of PPE
Not sure if that is current state of play or not
Are opticians open?
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Yeah it was apparent from the announcement that having some teachers in, some students in and having some students and teachers do online learning was not at all thought out and was doomed to failure. It’s very hard on you and other parents in similar circumstances and mostly on the kids. Hopefully this time around the government, with actual coordination with those directly involved in SNUs will come up with a plan that will work. Best of luck with it anyway Dan. I know online teaching will be tough for a lot of special needs kids, but hopefully it does enough to keep them going.
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Opticians are open, but on limited basis too. Not sure how the new lock down will affect things, but they did close the last time around.
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I was at the opticians at some point in the last 6 months anyway… Not sure what the restrictions status was at the time tho
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The Govts approach is confuse each sector so much on an individual basis so they’ll be too busy figuring out their own regulations which they only recieve last minute, all they’ll do is read the headlines about others and be able to say it must be all their fault everything is going wrong. It’s quite a cynical policy
There is a chance special needs come back on the 18th. Heads will be smashed together.
Leaving certs nots till next month
No schools will be back this side of February midterm and could be possibly not till after Easter.
Schools, by the Govts own measure, are the barometer for pretty much everything else. I have a feeling they’ll figure this out just like I mentioned above
That’s terrible.It must be awful tough on her and the youngster.
Dentists and pharmacists know fcuk all of relevance to an adverse reaction. All they will do is phone an ambulance. Everything else is window dressing.
You seem to have a good grasp of the medical profession, would your wife be a nurse by any chance?
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