Schools to close again.. Covid

Sweet Jesus not this again.

I feel like Marty McFly being dragged into the delorean for another sequel.

🤣🤣🤣 To my embarrassment, I didn't realise it was the same unhinged door as the last time until well after I'd opened it

The hills are alive with the sound of cray cray!

I cannot say what happened in secondary schools but I can say that the ' 1 email a week' was widespread in primary schools. However this did improve in some schools during the second lockdown.

Teachinggal is right - many teachers here seem to be trying to bully her away. She's not wrong in what she is saying - I really wish teachers would call out the teachers who effectively stuck 2 fingers up at their students by ignoring their education - stop saying this didn't happen - it did and will happen again. They let your profession down.

And no having young Children is not an excuse to ignore your students and just send a list of work once a week - there is prerecorded lessons, typed notes etc that could be done instead of live lessons. Many professions still had to carry out their duties as completely normal while looking after young children.

Anyway that's my last post on the matter - I know noone will agree here with me. In the real world however many parents don't agree that all teachers worked to the best of their ability - most teachers however did do an excellent job - that doesn't excuse the teachers who didn't though.

Teaching Gal's own contribution would have been far more valuable if she'd given us an insight into why she only sent one email per week herself and was part of the problem. Is it lack of It skills, just plain laziness, lack of motivation or whatever? Rather strange to go calling out others as if she was an exemplar of good practice herself. Inevitably those double standards will attract the wrath of others.

Nobody is saying she is wrong though.

People are just a bit taken aback by the fact that she "calls it out" in one breath and admits to being one of those who only sent the one email in the next breath.

Do you expect the many hardworking, insightful, regular contributors to this forum (posters who were teaching their full timetables to their students during the day and then coming here in the evening to discuss/give tutorials and advice to others on new technologies) to take a dressing down from someone of that ilk?

Have a read through her post history from about the time of the other school closures before you decide to back her up.

Can you please quote my post where I said that teachers with children shouldn't have to work.

You have alleged a number of times that I said that, so please quote it.

Since you continue to avoid the question asked of you, re: consequences, here is a more straightforward one for you:

Why did you only send an email a week to your classes during lockdown?

Aren't you the one who was on here about two years ago saying that you were pulled up for giving marks in FETAC exams for tasks students didn't complete. And your defence for that was 'the printer wasn't working in my room all year' and you were too damn lazy to go and ask anyone in your school to go and look at it. Total abdication of personal responsibility in your subject. And you spent a lot of time last year trashing teachers in the Covid forum to anyone who would listen. I think you need to look in the mirror.

I find it very odd that you would offer to provide an explanation by PM while in other posts essentially saying there are no excuses. Best to leave it (the PM I mean) I think. Obviously an explanation at the same public level you have admonished others would not be inappropriate.

As someone in the middle of teacher training I can only hope the schools re-open. Almost every teacher I know feels the same, bar one or two.

I remember the thread when the schools closed for the first time* and I remember the contributor who insisted they were a teacher who was enjoying the time off and making zero effort to continue teaching. I thought at the time that we were not hearing from a teacher but from somebody with a grudge, who was taking the opportunity to pretend to speak for teachers and to show them in the worst possible light.

No actual teacher would risk the damage to their professional reputation by neglecting students like that. Imagine standing in front of a class and asking them to pay attention and follow instructions after behaving like that! Imagine dealing with parents in matters of discipline or even just at parent teacher meetings after having gleefully abandoned their children! Absolutely nobody would put themselves in that position. Nobody.

I still think that the contributor in question is taking advantage of the anonymity of the internet to carry out a sad little crusade.

*Under a now-defunct username.

Bananaleaf, no point getting stressed in your holidays. She uses the Trump style of defence, deflect, deflect, deflect... ignore any questions asked that should have an easy answer and continually attack other posters. Just stick her on ignore.

Is there still an ignore button on boards? Or is it possible to mute somebody?

Guys, I'm sorry. Descention of thread was my fault. I should know better. Have the ignore thing done now, so🤐🤐🤐🙈

Very busy with subbing and the supervision. I'm fortunate that I'm ok financially, so in that sense it isn't a problem if the schools don't re-open. But I certainly think that the kids are better off in school getting some work done. We have to live with this situation, so time we started living with it.

I count three accurate descriptions of your carry on in this thread/at home while working from home. If you find them “personal” and “insults”, maybe you should have a think about yourself and how you carry on, both here and when you’re supposed to be working from home. I’d feel personally insulted if someone said that about me too, but in my case, it wouldn’t be the truth.

But you're not a student in my class. Not sure why you try to make an inappropriate comparison. We treat children and adults differently - not sure why you want me to adopt a "pedagogical" approach with you.

Maybe instead of counting “personal insults” (that accurately reflect your self-proclaimed lack of work ethic and professional pride), you should prepare a few classes so you don’t have to just email your students once a week if the schools stay closed again in a few days.

You are an anonymous poster on the Internet. You are not a colleague I work with daily. You are scrambling for comparators but there aren't any. This is a very specific environment with its own style of engagement.

I don't imagine, for example, you would challenge openly a colleague who wasn't active enough on on-line classes especially if your own performance left - by your own admission - something to be desired. But you do it here.

I know you are desperately looking for offence but there's isn't really any. You've just been fairly, reasonably, and civilly, challenged on fairly demonstrable double standards. No more but certainly no less.

Indeed, and school buildings closed to students. I know of several teachers who did online classes from the school. Obviously when LCs were back anyway that was common practice.

I notice that Stephen Donnelly is being reported as saying schools will reopen in a car-crash interview (the part I heard) when he oscillated between telling us what was "government policy" and that he backed the Nphet advice on socialising tonight which is at variance with said government policy. A real struggle between the learned-off answer mentality and the need for real-world agility in a rapidly evolving situation.

But as a reminder of how easily and fluently these people lie, he's one from this day last year.

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