The talk of education
Croke Park II
So Croke Park II has come to some agreement, but what does this mean for your average sub? Not only will pay packets be affected but it looks like the availability of sub work will also be affected over the next few years. One paragraph stating that teachers will now perform “some additional covering of the absences of colleagues” is worrying for us subs in an already dry subbing year.
Subkit.eu (blog)
I am on site ready to work at eight every morning and I don’t leave before 4.30pm. There is also at least one late evening a week which could be Croke Park hours – a school show, debate competitions, etc. An average school show will see a week of not leaving the school until 10pm. Also, classroom hours are intense, as there is one of you and 30 of them. Please think back to your own school days. Teenagers can be very difficult to deal with. Have to go. Doing eight o’clock detention.
Fall, boards.ie
I think it is a crime that we are paying into our unions and there is no representative from them giving our viewpoint to the media and feedback to us. Talking to colleagues over the weekend, the general feeling is of being p****d off with our well-paid fat union cats.
Lennyloulou, boards.ie
The trade-union movement (or, rather some individual unions) has done a deal with the Government to save €1 billion over three years. I think it is rotten. I will be voting against the deal.
Pat Burke, blogger, Pet’s Teacher
Not bashing, but does Croke Park II have anything to incentivise productivity/ innovation/smart thinking or is it all just cuts?
@joeoshea, Twitter
It’s just all cuts. In education we used Croke Park I to do essential work after school without affecting tuition. @hanrahanandy, Twitter
Kilkenny College to enter “free” education system for day pupils
Kilkenny College has entered the public education system. That's a huge move. Will cost the State lots to run it. @SimonPRepublic, Twitter
Much fairer, considering that almost every “private” school in Ireland that charges fees has its teaching staff costs met by taxpayers, most of whom couldn’t afford to send their kids to these schools.
sondagefaux, politics.ie
There will always be those who want to pay to be segregated from the rest. Hopefully the rich parents at Kilkenny will stay, continue to pay to maintain services in the school and integrate with the new pupils, who won’t be able to contribute as much materially but will make the school a more holistic educational centre.
ffc, politics.ie
It’s a good thing Kilkenny College has dropped the fees for day pupils. Church of Ireland children who could not afford fees had no choice locally but go to a Catholic school. Don’t see why they should be forced to do that, as they pay the same taxes as everyone else.
roadhigh, boards.ie
