* School closures due to weather - link to RTE list in first post *

Stinjy

I'm sorry a bit of slush??? my dad was coming home yesterday driving very slowly but was on a hill he couldn't stop the car ended up in a tree!an experienced driver.. never had a crash before but in a tree because of the ice .. and that is the road he must travel its a main road!!! I can't Imagine all the school traffic trying to get through that road at 9 am on a Monday morning ridiculas!

yenoBAYUB

Stinjy wrote: »

I'm sorry a bit of slush??? my dad was coming home yesterday driving very slowly but was on a hill he couldn't stop the car ended up in a tree!an experienced driver.. never had a crash before but in a tree because of the ice .. and that is the road he must travel its a main road!!! I can't Imagine all the school traffic trying to get through that road at 9 am on a Monday morning ridiculas!

And as well u have to remember its not only people in cars who are in danger, its pedestrians too! All it takes is for one person to skid on the ice, go flying off the road and into a child or a parent. And hope ur dads ok Stinjy!

Stinjy

Exactly.. Yeah hes grand.. Just a bit warey of driving now.. its waaaaay to bad out there! thanks though! =]

Orlaladuck

There's also the fact - what about busses? My busdrivers an idiot in normal conditions let alone when you add frost and ice. I was driving on tuesday and even in first and second gear I skidded on the road. The last thing we want is a repeat of the last bus accident a few years ago.

Also 5 weeks in school weeks would put us at midterm . 5 weeks normally, would put us past the midterm. Putting mocks on after the midterm is Cruel imo though.

EDIT: Also good to hear your dad's okay though , one of the lucky ones definitely.

MultiUmm

yenoBAYUB wrote: »

Yes they've been saying it for weeks, but its not the weekend yet is it? so u clearly havent seen anything other than slush! Listen, theres no point in complaining, its done, ur schools closed, if ur that concerned, spend ur days off studying, seems to be the simple solution, u sitting at ur computer slandering the minister isnt going to ensure u sitting in a classroom at 9am monday morning.

I'm not slandering anyone, I'm just saying he should've thought through his decision with a bit more consideration, or announce it earlier, why leave it 'til today?

Parent teacher meeting was meant to be Tuesday as well, so I suppose that will have to be postponed.

Funnily enough I live in O'Keefe's constituency and quite close to his house actually, so you'd think he might have left it up to the local boards of management if he knew things were running smoothly in a few places anyway. :pac:

Cian92

MultiUmm wrote: »

My school was well able to manage itself this week by making us come in later at 10am, which was a good system because people didn't have to rush on the icy roads to be on time. Attendance was normal, nearly every teacher/ pupil was able to get in.

Not necessarily, all the schools where I live were open, bar the ones in the country where the roads were impassable.

Tbh the ice really isn't that bad where I live. I can understand for people living in rural areas or up the country where it's snowing but it really isn't extremely dangerous here as long as people are careful and take a bit of extra time.

I presume you go to school in Ballincollig? I thought the roads weren't bad here in Cork either. My school was closed and maybe twenty minutes away from you, and the roads are lethal!

dolliemix

MultiUmm wrote: »

I'm not slandering anyone, I'm just saying he should've thought through his decision with a bit more consideration, or announce it earlier, why leave it 'til today?

Parent teacher meeting was meant to be Tuesday as well, so I suppose that will have to be postponed.

Funnily enough I live in O'Keefe's constituency and quite close to his house actually, so you'd think he might have left it up to the local boards of management if he knew things were running smoothly in a few places anyway. :pac:

Why do you think he should have the decision earlier?

Telling people on a Friday re coming in on Monday is more than enough time

MultiUmm

Cian92 wrote: »

I presume you go to school in Ballincollig? I thought the roads weren't bad here in Cork either. My school was closed and maybe twenty minutes away from you, and the roads are lethal!

Yep, and most people managed to make it in, bar a few people who live in rural areas. Thought that there would be more out, considering all the people from Blarney, Tower etc.

MultiUmm

dolliemix wrote: »

Why do you think he should have the decision earlier?

Telling people on a Friday re coming in on Monday is more than enough time

Why not tell us on Tuesday or Wednesday instead of first saying that they'd leave the decision to the board of management? He made a u-turn when the boards of management/ principals were doing a fairly good job in deciding whether to stay open or not imo.

fulhamfanincork

Does anyone know if we will have to make the days up at the summer or at the February mid term?

dolliemix

MultiUmm wrote: »

Why not tell us on Tuesday or Wednesday instead of first saying that they'd leave the decision to the board of management? He made a u-turn when the boards of management/ principals were doing a fairly good job in deciding whether to stay open or not imo.

There's no u-turn!

He let BOMs decide this week because in some parts of the country the weather wasn't that bad this week. And all decisions were local issues.

Yesterday the Government announced that they were setting up an Emergency Response Committee. And that all action was to be taken on a national level as a result of salt levels being so low. They need prioritise the worse hit areas and the main transport routes with whatever supplies of salt they have.

So that kind of national decision could only have been called today.



As much as I can't stand Batt O Keeffe. I think everything has been in order this time round!

Black Magic

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

Does anyone know if we will have to make the days up at the summer or at the February mid term?

If schools are off for a month then there probably won't be a mid-term.

fulhamfanincork

Black Magic wrote: »

If schools are off for a month then there probably won't be a mid-term.

What do you mean a month? I thought the schools were just off on Monday, Tuesday and Wednsday?

Black Magic

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

What do you mean a month? I thought the schools were just off on Monday, Tuesday and Wednsday?

If

dolliemix

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

What do you mean a month? I thought the schools were just off on Monday, Tuesday and Wednsday?

Ha! No school till Feb 8th!

fulhamfanincork

Black Magic wrote: »

If

I still don't get it. Is it likely schools will remain closed for a month?

MultiUmm

dolliemix wrote: »

There's no u-turn!

He let BOMs decide this week because in some parts of the country the weather wasn't that bad this week. And all decisions were local issues.

Yesterday the Government announced that they were setting up an Emergency Response Committee. And that all action was to be taken on a national level as a result of salt levels being so low. They need prioritise the worse hit areas and the main transport routes with whatever supplies of salt they have.

So that kind of national decision could only have been called today.



As much as I can't stand Batt O Keeffe. I think everything has been in order this time round!

:rolleyes: Alright, I'm only making my point known, no need to have a small fit about it.

If the schools are shut then the schools are shut. I'll say no more.

dolliemix

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

I still don't get it. Is it likely schools will remain closed for a month?

NO. that was a joke

fulhamfanincork

dolliemix wrote: »

NO. that was a joke

Went waaaaaay over my head.

dolliemix

MultiUmm wrote: »

:rolleyes: Alright, I'm only making my point known, no need to have a small fit about it.

If the schools are shut then the schools are shut. I'll say no more.

I wasn't having a fit!!!!

Whats with the patronising remark? It's a discussion forum!!! If anything you need to relax. You're rolling your eyes, why? Because I didn't agree with your point of view?

I'm just explaining how it came about.

It's easy to complain about somebody - but if you're not taking in the whole picture you could be fueling others to go and repeat your 'point' as fact.

There are procedures involved in these decisions.

If you did your research properly before posting and read this website - you might'd feel so upset when your misinformed views are contradicted

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fulhamfanincork wrote: »

Does anyone know if we will have to make the days up at the summer or at the February mid term?

No we won't have to make it up. Do you really think they are going to try and keep us in until the 8th of June?? Think about it, even if they tried they wouldn't succeed. I for one will be in very sparingly after around the 20th of May as by then the teachers have taught me all they can and its down to me.
At the minute though it is really annoying because it should never have happened. We may say it's not Batt O' Keefe's fault, that it's down to health and safety but really it is, I mean if we had a proper Government, the roads wouldn't be half as bad as we would have had them gritted properly. I don't know of many other countries that have to pretty much shut down after maybe two inches of snow in most places.:mad:

MultiUmm

dolliemix wrote: »

I wasn't having a fit!!!!

Whats with the patronising remark? It's a discussion forum!!! If anything you need to relax. You're rolling your eyes, why? Because I didn't agree with your point of view?

I'm just explaining how it came about.

It's easy to complain about somebody - but if you're not taking in the whole picture you could be fueling others to go and repeat your 'point' as fact.

There are procedures involved in these decisions.

If you did your research properly before posting and read this website - you might'd feel so upset when your misinformed views are contradicted

Alright, maybe I did go a little overboard, but like I said: "If the schools are shut then the schools are shut. I'll say no more".

Eire-Dearg

Great.

More time that I'll be expected to spend time studying - and won't.

yenoBAYUB

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Great.

More time that I'll be expected to spend time studying - and won't.

well if ur not going to do it u can hardly complain?

Stinjy

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

Does anyone know if we will have to make the days up at the summer or at the February mid term?

OK I'm not 100% but talking to a teacher, they don't think we will have to make up these days because it was a national thing not just an isolated incident.. and we wouldn't be in until the 8th of June for the record we would be in during Feb mid term.. =]

Professional Griefer

Sorry to go off topic, this is pretty funny though,

the dangers of shopping in this weather = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CT0a-Hgumo

st0ned z0mbie

anyone know if fifth year institute will have until thursday off as well?

fulhamfanincork

Schools who are unaffected want to remain open.

yenoBAYUB

then let them! apparently this has been declared a national emergency?

D.R cowboy

st0ned z0mbie wrote: »

anyone know if fifth year institute will have until thursday off as well?

No mate back in on Tuesday to much money at stake and time for this bull****

**Timbuk2**

This might be a stupid question, but anyway:

Here in Dundalk there is hardly any snow left. I can't see it being that bad for the next few days. Can the schools open to if they want to, or do they have to wait until Thursday because this is a national thing? (Public schools by the way)

yenoBAYUB

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

This might be a stupid question, but anyway:

Here in Dundalk there is hardly any snow left. I can't see it being that bad for the next few days. Can the schools open to if they want to, or do they have to wait until Thursday because this is a national thing? (Public schools by the way)

Hmm, AFAIK they have to close because its a national thing! The minister is due to make an announcement tomorrow, I reckon he's going to say that its at the schools descretion(sp?) whether they want to close or not! I'm hoping we get to stay off until Thursday, I've great plans for my study over the next few days, and I wont be able to do it if I'm stuck in school!

Cian92

Jsut heard on Todayfm, it is now up to the individual school to decide to open tomorrow or not! Feck it anyway..

AJ STYLES

load of ****. my school is kinda all over the place so i'll just pretend i didn't know

yenoBAYUB

awh no i really could of used those extra days to study, i had great plans Cause im not even gonna lie i do nothing in school anyways except talk and eat

fulhamfanincork

Bat has screwed this up badly.

the groutch

another ministerial screw-up, FF will be lucky to have any seats left after the general election (which is hopefully sooner rather than later)

yenoBAYUB

fulhamfanincork wrote: »

Bat has screwed this up badly.

AGREED

Orlaladuck

It is quite bad =/. I think he should have just left the schools closed rather than on-off. It's hectic enough as it is and that was the first thing set in stone since the beginning of this year so far.

yenoBAYUB

Orlaladuck wrote: »

It is quite bad =/. I think he should have just left the schools closed rather than on-off. It's hectic enough as it is and that was the first thing set in stone since the beginning of this year so far.

True. Everyones had their moan about the schools being closed, and now over the weekend been able to work out their study plans etc., and now he drops this bombshell? Im so glad i can vote now, im gonna make myself the next miinister!!!

AJ STYLES

or at least give it a day, so make the decision today and have us back on wednesday. i mean come on dude.

Conor108

I know I said I'd rather be in school but now that its come to this....Jesus I don't wanna go in until Thursay! Plans Batt, I had plans

partyatmygaff

ffs

He shouild have started again on wednesday, no one is ready to start school again with less than a few hours notice.

barry181091

Well our school isn't open until Wednesday

AJ STYLES

its gonna be hilarious when this returns, ****in hell the country will go into meltdown....LITERALLY

Conor108

When what returns? The snow? WILL IT???

AJ STYLES

the snow

yenoBAYUB

im off tomorrow and probs wednesday school has no heat or water :P

Mental_Legend

It would have been much easier (and much less controversial) if Batt came out and said that due to an unexpected rise in temperatures, schools will now re-open on Wednesday as opposed to Thursday.

Conor108

Lads, you know who the real villains are here....Met Eireann!

"Due to an unexpected rise in temperatures...." - Who's supposed to expect them!? MET EIREANN!! What happened to this forecast snow?!?

BBC Weather are forecasting heavy snow for Dublin on Tuesday. I will put my trust in them.

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