Our grandparents grew up in worse times and came through it. They had torture in schools then. Abject poverty and didn’t rationing go on for a good while after WW2?
I haven’t read much of the argument here but our generation were blessed in avoiding any kind of major catastrophe and it has made us very weak as a result. Hopefully kids will come out if this with the resilience most current 20-40 year olds don’t have
I reckon they actually could. Time will tell.
the vast majority of kids are at home with loving parents, warm, fed and happy. The younger ones wouldn’t even know there was hardship. The older ones are probably flat out playing XBOX
kids that had it tough have it tougher, no doubt about it. Some of them would have resilience from their upbringing.
You’re correct. My own generation make me sick. You only have to look around you on here to see it.
They’re almost to a man oddballs in my experience. If any of them were on the late late show for eg everyone on here would be lambasting them.
on here looking for a mass to be said for his daughter when she had a stuffy nose
Home schooling is bloody awful tough for all concerned, saw my fella waning Wednesday and his teachers are definitely feeling it
Eh why exactly?
Roaster alert
If special Ed teachers were bumped up to the top of the vaccination queue what would be the worst that could happen, would it solve that problem? Who is ahead of them at the moment?
It’s a genuine question,just wondering?
Not sure if special needs teachers fall into “key worker” category 6, but teachers generally fall into category 10 apparently.
This was the angle being pursued for SNAs during the week.
Surely there’s few enough of them that they can “skip the queue”. They are also highly respected so won’t be many whingebags on Joe Duffy. They might be so geographically dispersed that the HSE don’t have an efficient way to get them vaccinated quickly.
Infants and primary should go back.
Secondary should stay home and school on line.
Difference? Viral load
I suppose we obviously need to consider priorities seriously, but with the attention focussed on this issue through media and online would it be so bad to bump them close to the very top of that list and let them get on with it
Perhaps lob in infant teachers in DEIS schools as well if @TheUlteriorMotive’s concerns are widespread?
It makes sense I think to prioritise them.
How many teachers in Ireland. You could bump them up the queue. End this year school year six weeks early and start next year school year start of August. They’d all be vaccinated by then. I’d also look at some structured interventions next school year for kids and reading.
Can lads ensure we’re here when Fulvio finds out teachers are being bumped up the list?
Agree extra needs kids will regress unless their teachers get back ASAP
Isn’t Tony’s concern less on what happens in the classroom but on the movement of people carrying children to and from school and mixing outside the gates etc.
Jesus will you stop, he’ll drive his forklift straight into a pallet of Pot Noodle