Westmeath school gets temporary injunction banning a suspended teacher from it's premises

Wait I thought the Duty of care for the child was paramount over rights of the parents.

The full list of rights for children and young people under the age of 18 is set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most accepted standard on children’s rights in the world. Ireland committed to promote children’s rights when it signed up to the Convention in 1992.

Yep. Just because he got suspended with pay doesn't mean he was right in his argument. It's not related. Why is it that those on the side of the teacher have such a lack of understanding?

Exactly this

I teach classes of 30+ students Physics and Math. It is difficult enough deal with occasional discipline problems in the classroom / encourage the weaker students etc without worrying about having to address an 'obvious' boy/ girl by an alternative pronoun.

My job is to get these kids through exams. And this is what most normal parents want. If the student has gender identity issues, they generally do not wish the whole class to know about it

Odd as this Enoch chap is, I find the parents of this student (who wished to be referred to by alternative pronouns) even more bizarre. If they had their child's best interest at heart, they would not want attention drawn to their son / daughter. Their priority would be in their son / daughter getting the best results at school.

I meet some of my students for coffee at weekends and they find this whole situation quite comic. All agreed that if they were having gender identity issues, they would consider it a private matter - and absolutely not one for a school setting.

At parents' meetings, a parent might bring up such a subject with me privately (if they thought such an issue was interfering with their child's studies) but would never insist their child was singled out / addressed by alternative pronouns.

A lot of people banging on here about this child's rights - (with similar clatter to this Enoch chap, which makes me wonder what their own personal issues might be) -

well, a lot of these "children" simply don't know their own minds yet. They haven't been out in the real world to test their feelings in real life relationships

Teenage years are full of confusion. I am male and i had a crush on a male teacher in high school - Does that make me gay ?

I am and always have been heterosexual. I was "going through a phase". Simples

I respect whatever gender a person wishes to identify as and will address them by their preferred appellation.

But in the classroom - my job is to teach the subjects at hand and get my students the best results possible. End of

I am going to leave it there. I can't speak for all teachers in Ireland but my colleagues and teachers I have spoken with feel exactly the same