Ordinarily I’d agree but I wouldn’t be so certain at the minute.
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He always struck me as a catcher rather than a pitcher.
Here’s the latest news from the mainland.
- There is evidence beginning to show that the first injection may only give 30% protection rather than 80% as initially claimed.
- Whether it makes the disease much milder if you get it is hoped, but unclear.
- Long covid is quite a problem. It seems to cause trouble for people who are either unhealthy to begin with, but also to those overtraining (ie elite level athletes not resting properly who have run down immune systems anyway)
It was actually a genuine question phrased as a joke. I’d be interested (very) in whether a natural aptitude for maths exists above normal level intelligence, and, whether maths can be taught to honours level in someone who doesn’t find maths naturally easy.
Not a hope.
Have you primary aged children? Would parents of young kids want them going into school during the traditional summer holiday period, I doubt it but I might be wrong.
Speaking as a parent I wouldn’t want that
This explains why Salah, Mane and Trent are all fucked.
That all seems reasonable. Is there a solution in the short term or will it be dependent on case numbers falling to a level whereby teachers, and folk in other industries, are comfortable with the level of COVID-19 in the community? I’m not sure union demands such as weekly/twice weekly testing for teachers (could be wrong here) are realistic. I don’t know what else they’re looking for. Unfortunately it’s pitting teachers against parents now and teachers against other workers.
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And why pogba is relatively grand
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There is a solution that would get the kids who need to be in school back, the problem is that Special Ed is all falling under the same umbrella which is ridiculous, the majority of parents are not comfortable sending their kids to school, the kids at home then wouldn’t receive the same ‘homeschool’ support as they do now because the teacher will be prioritising the children on fromt of him or her.
There’s probably a hundred reasons why it wouldn’t work but I’d have the schools operating on a skeleton staff with teachers that have been vaccinated (it’d be a very small number) and pupils temporarily working from different rooms, the numbers attending school would be very small, then those teachers could push their homeschool workload somewhere else, it needs micro management at individual school level,
It’s a difficult one but these are fucked up times
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I’d imagine that special ed kids as a group may have more other health issues and be more vulnerable if they do get covid
2 and it wouldn’t bother me if they had to work a bit into the summer to catch up
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Finishing 2 weeks later in the summer and returning 2 weeks earlier in Autumn would seem a reasonable solution to catch-up somewhat. However considering schools here were closing earlier on Fridays to make up the time teachers were losing by coming in 20 minutes earlier each day to accommodate staggered drop-offs I don’t see much chance of it happening.
I have. She’s 9 and is flying school work wise. He’s senior infants and got a bit fucked over last year by circumstance (teacher broke ankle, unqualified sub for nov/December). His entire class pretty much started junior infants work again this year. The very basics of letters and sounds. He is most certainly missing school. If his school went on a bit in summer in lieu of now I’d be very ok with that.
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Not all autistic kids generally are physically fit etc
there are a huge amount of issues that as I mentioned previously, the government did not consider at all when just announcing that special ed schools are to go back. Leaving aside teachers concerns for their own health, which you mentioned should be taken differently to others due to the working conditions, but other things that havent been considered:
travelling to school. A lot of kids have special taxi services as part of their transport. Some have bus services. Others get parents to drop them in. The public options arent there anymore for getting them into school
parents who dont want to send their kids back. There are many parents who need schools to be open for their child to go back and have a set routine and keep them going. There are as many I reckon who do not want their child to go back. so what do the teachers do in that situation? They have some students who would go to school and some students who wont go to school? How can they accommodate both scenarios in the one situation?
Main stream integration. In a lot of ASD or SNU schools, the kids will spend some of the time in their dedicated SNU and other time in mainstream classrooms with standard teachers, but have their SNA with them for the class. How do they incorporate this into the working practicalities?
There is no one catch all solution to the problem, and just broadly saying open the schools is not an answer. The biggest issue in all of this is that this was flagged last March, and absolutely fuck all was done by the Dept of Education, the government generally and Norma Foley and any of the teachers unions to try make sure a working plan could be in place when the need arose.
I have also not discussed any health concerns teachers may also have, which shouldnt be just ignored, but there are many more difficulties in getting the schools operational without even going into that.
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I think a general issue that people have is that everything the teachers union says/does seems reasonable in isolation. It’s the fact that it is always negative, always putting up road blocks, always shouting about what won’t work and why something cant be done. I struggle to remember any positive or proactive position on anything over the last few years and certainly nothing on covid.
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News outlets don’t like publishing the good stuff.
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Once again, when needed most, the teachers were found wanting.
Que sera sera.
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