Schools to close again.. Covid

Wow! That is great. We had done training on OneNote but we honestly knew nothing about Teams. Myself and a colleague, who is also a friend, navigated it eventually all by ourselves and for something that I would now consider to be so easy that I can often simultaneously live stream home and teach in person, it had me in tears many an evening. Microsoft Forms almost owed me a relationship!!!!

Jesus yer on fire timmymagoo , keep going like that and with your big qualifications you'll be seconded out of the classroom into JCT in no time at all.

2 Degrees..... AND A MASTERS folks.

Our students will be so lucky once he starts.

I mean like it or not more social restrictions does indeed equal to less transmission, this isn't a zero covid concept, it's 100% science when it comes to any respiratory virus that's easily transmitted 🤷‍♂️

We're being told constantly that this wave of Omicron has yet to hit its peak. If we were to have closed schools at the beginning of last week we would be looking at them remaining closed for at least a month.

Nope never said that

Do you believe the decision to reopen was correct? Would you have supported a closure or staggered reopening?

110 % the right call to open by Foley, NPHET and co. We need to just see it out at this stage and get to a herd immunity. Hospitals arent under pressure and numbers in icu remain stable even though our case count is probably at 40k or so day.

Omicron is extremely mild. Zero justification for shutting schools. The most vulnerable of children siffer when that happens.

I cant figure out the logic by some stakeholders for not wanting to reopen etc. Obviously agendas at play.

If they offer predicted grades, they'll put some spin on it saying 'given the amount of teachers that have been absent, it's not fair that your education has been interrupted, so we're going to offer predicted grades'. Nothing to do with the fact that if they had let us do online learning for two weeks to get over the hump, that the mess that is ongoing could have been avoided somewhat.

Grades are prepared for all students, but can only be accessed with a confirmed positive or close contact text from the hse, rather than being the default.

A degree in Science no less.

Why would they stop at teaching one day a week. There is a staffing crisis in hospitals as well. And GPs are under serious pressure too.

Or is it just a case yet again that anyone thinks they can rock into a classroom unqualified and do a teachers job ?

Not having to be Garda vetted then as well

LOL

Oh we all know they should give ample notice, the reality with the department is they don't know their arse from their elbow and couldn't plan a piss up in a brewery so whatever "plan" happens will be a mad scramble just before it's too late.

100% I cannot understand how anyone would want to close schools at this stage. Although infection numbers are sky high the hospitals are holding steady. Nowhere near the levels in ICU this time last year and ultimately that is the most important metric.

We will work through the absences this month and hopefully proper exams in some form will run in June

Delta is still doing the rounds too though. Without genome sequencing, there's no guarantee your friend had Omicron.

Not to me. Someone said Omicron was like a cold, you said your friend had more than a cold, I said there's a possibility your friend had Delta.

This wan is a genius... and no this is not a spoof from Waterford Whispers

Whatever happened the 1400ppm limit on the co2 sensors. Is that gone now?