Mom, Education, Sport 🏀⚽️ Scientist , Teacher, Advocate of Women in Sport, Life learner. SciFest STEM Teacher of Excellence 2023. All views are my own. 🇮🇪
@NormaFoleyTD1
⛔️No HEPA purchasing mechanism
⛔️No FFP2 Masking
⛔️No Contact Tracing
⛔️No Honest Reporting of School Cases
⛔️No Sub Teachers
⛔️Class Sizes too big
⛔️The only mitigation is a direction to open windows and carbon dioxide monitors
⛔️A complete disregard for H&S of employees
If schools are reopening, then politicians need to return to the Dáil, and the money being spent on the Convention Centre be reallocated to the safe reopening of schools.
#edchatie
Lots of references to ‘Homeschooling’ If it was that, parent becomes teacher. In reality, it is supervising your own children while they are learning remotely, using resources, recordings or live lessons supplied by teacher working from home in a global pandemic..big difference..
Just a correction for media. Parents are not home schooling, they are supervising work set by teachers, that is NOT home schooling. Home schooling does not involve teachers. Teachers are STILL teaching, I am still teaching. I too am supervising my sons work set by HIS teachers
@doireannod
@peter_lydon
I doubt that, as an adult you should recognise that ‘my teachers didn’t like me’ would be a claim of a teenager but rarely true in fact. A bad conversation with one, doesn’t equate to ‘not being liked’
I won’t be sending my son to school on Monday.. we are seeing a significant change in direction of the CoVid curve.. schools are the source of these rises even if the Irish government
@HSELive
@hpscireland
@Education_Ire
refuse to say it public ally.
#edchatie
The enormous Covid numbers in schools MUST be a story, leaving cert students being affected badly.. is
@NormaFoleyTD1
actually seeing what’s happening on the ground?? Teacher and student absence as bad as it ever has been.
#edchatie
@Reunify32
@ChiefConPSNI
Surely it’s a sectarian hate crime to burn the flag of another nation? How is this cultural? It has nothing to do with the arrival of William to the north of Ireland. That can be acknowledged without the hatred. Why is this not being encouraged?
@NormaFoleyTD1
What public health data on schools was presented given no contact tracing for schools? Did you present the same false figures as last week on antigen test positivity rates? What mitigations are now in place, for example wrt pods do not protect against airbourne transmission?
📈Cases and hospitalisations rising in children
❌Clusters not being investigated in mainstream schools
@celoscher
says transmission is happening in schools, PCRs should be made available to kids
@LiqaDr
warns of a "sleeping crisis" of long COVID in children
@VirginMediaNews
Sixth years first class in the morning, their first contact with school, and I can tell them nothing about orals, project work, the details of arrangements..
@Independent_ie
I’m not a political apologist, but Laois County Council pulled Electric Picnic. The man is entitled to time off. He is breaking no rules.. just inflammatory journalism. Lots of outdoor gigs are starting to happen here.. I’m off to At the Manor myself tomorrow.
The end of school year exhaustion is in full flow, between year term exams, grades and assessment for 3rd years and the pressure of Grades for Leaving certs, while all the while preparing them for written exams.. it’s a whole new level
#edchatie
@Rachael_Gilmour
@Eintrachtrob
I’m afraid the British government are extremely negligent currently. The numbers issued are false, the directions fluid, the advice purely economical. They are out of line with the rest of Europe and the world. The government will have death on their hands..
School attendance is plummeting with Covid, over 20 teachers absent from my son’s school, students dropping like flies.. sixth year orals/practicals/reports under serious strain. As someone now a week post a positive test, I’m teaching my own students on a half cylinder
#edchatie
How does 400 hours of wellbeing in term time equate to LC exams scheduled for school breaks? Surely students & teachers are having their wellbeing eroded? Music teacher accompaniments unpaid in holidays, what about their childcare costs? Students need breaks
#wellbeing
.
#edchatie
I am amused by the no of peep admitting to being exhausted after 2 wks of their kids being at home, yet the same can’t understand the exhaustion of a teacher after a 13 wk term, and refer constantly to teachers not deserving their break.
#edchatie
#thereisnotiredliketeachertired
@Education_Ire
@NormaFoleyTD1
Why is the grant simply not given to schools, treating the education budget like the hunger games is appalling. How many teaching hours are wasted applying for a grant lottery?? If STEM is a priority then divide the grant equitably between schools.
#edchatie
@IrishTimes
Parents need a dose of reality if that’s the case. No demand for HEPA filters, antigen testing, contract tracing, but asking unvacc children to wear masks to school, that’s the break point? Children & teachers are getting sick in huge numbers. Across Europe, children wear masks.
@ConnlaYoung
@irish_news
This is poor parenting, with indoctrination of hate, violent conversations, add in segregation of education, nothing to do with Irishness.
@Independent_ie
As a teacher, this is the kind of parenting that frustrates me. Children need parents that accept that there are consequences for poor decision making, not parents that defend their child regardless of the actions.
Long day in school, a zillion jobs, came home, the boy had the grass cut, the dishwasher on, dried clothes away, homework started.. with NO instructions to do it before I ran out the door this morning..
#grateful
#teens
#educationismorethanschool
The number of inexperienced teachers delivering training to teachers from ed centres is concerning.
#instateachers
Reading some profiles and some have <6 years qualification meaning they haven’t run a full cycle of classes through a school. Experience is a key skill.
#edchatie
Wish that someone would be positive about teachers. We got a couple of days hiatus when schools initially closed, but the bashing has started again. It’s getting weary. I work hard, I’m fed up justifying it. I care about my students. It’s not about June July & August
#justsayin
The ‘brain in school mode’ never left this Summer. Despite being at home, I’m not going back to school refreshed. The idea of that first long term is dreadful..
#edchatie
After watching
#RTEInvestigates
, I don’t want to hear another person talking about their hair, drinks, Penney’s, pubs, foreign holidays, just wear the masks and stop a second peak.
@EwanMacKenna
Perhaps they are celebrating the experience and not the result necessarily, why so mean spirited? Reports are that Japanese hospitality has been superb. The rugby on show from Japan, NZ and England has been worth acknowledging. Many spent a lot of money to share the experience.
@NormaFoleyTD1
As teachers, we met all deadlines despite the fact that we were assessing all students including those normally assessed by the SEC.. what is the reason for the delay?
@iamsorchab
Absolutely disagree, the rote leaning of tables has huge benefit to real world application. It is a platform on which so much problem solving starts. As a teacher of 27 years, the deterioration in maths standards directly due to this one belief alone is hugely detrimental.
@gavreilly
@VirginMediaNews
Appalling decision.. teachers and Gardai in the company of large numbers every day.. they are making it up as they go along..
So doctors are the second highest, but teachers are the most trusted.. the headline is about doctors 🤷♀️🤷♀️ And we wonder about burnout and leaving the profession?!
#edchatie
@aoifegracemoore
@KatieGHannon
Absolutely farcical, schools have increasing CoVid cases and teachers and students have to continue on regardless. Teachers are being thrown under a bus, 6 hours a day in small rooms with 24+ others.. the DÁIL is suspended because of a suspected case???
@BenLowry2
The Israeli team called the Irish players anti semitic. Ireland is anti violence, is anti colonialism, is anti taking land from its inhabitants and anti kidnapping. It’s nothing to do with religious beliefs
#tommytiernanshow
catching
@BrianODriscoll
with a tough unexpected question, and him answering with honest vulnerability.. that’s the men our young boys need to see on TV; open, reflective, capable of showing emotion..
@rtenews
@AodhanORiordain
@NormaFoleyTD1
An absolutely true account of what has happened by the Labour spokesperson, but in the back drop of an empty convention centre and its daily cost.. the irony is not lost..
@paulreiddublin
@HSELive
Still nothing for my mother who has recovered from Cancer and Father with heart failure.. both in their 70s.. is there a problem in the D24 region??
Seems the media are preparing the groundwork for something, significant gaslighting today. Media praising NF & driving an private v public school discourse. What deflection is coming our way? Teachers & unions are going to be hammered again, it’s being set up for it
#edchatie
Leaving Cert reform, appalling decision, with no educational reasoning and her ultimate goal of 40% project work assessed by teachers will run our high achieving by international standards to the ground.
#edchatie
@SkyNews
The Royal Family need to read the room now, the Russian invasion is a timely reminder to them of how they invaded and colonised independent nations for centuries..
Controversial, I’m not a fan of the
#LateLateShow
country special, but at least
@PatricKielty
knows the words and is comfortable in the space unlike his predecessor. He has a genuine experience of the country world..
@TonightVMTV
@ciarakellydoc
Why why why is this non expert on education always talking about education??? And why why why is she always given a platform?
@Jennifer_Bray
@marktigheST
@sinnfeinireland
@MaryLouMcDonald
This is why people are nervous of a move to Sinn Fein. The IRA should not form any part of being elected a TD. This is not representative of a new Ireland but that of the violence divisions of the past. Success is short lived if this is the way.
@MaiaDunphy
Seriously? Surely that’s a question for government. HEPA filtration, zero contact tracing for teachers, no honest reporting on school cases, now no pcrs for most of the school going population unless positive? This is on going for two years Maïa.
@SkyNews
Priests wear dresses, Jesus being where he was from, wore a dress, many men in many cultures wear robes. A persons choice of clothes says nothing of their character, this is anti Christian. Why are they getting a platform?
I say it every yr but a 3hr 5 minute HL Irish P2 followed not even an hour and a half later by a 3hr biology exam is just cruel..
#LC2022
No brain reset time at all for a huge memory exam like biology. Given numbers sitting biology it’s thoughtless
@Education_Ire
#SEC
#edchatie
@emma_okelly
And shows a complete lack of understanding of the time to make changes in school, particularly around timetabling.
@Education_Ire
pays no overtime, and yet expect these things to happen when school managers are on their annual leave.
@LukeBrophy3
@piersmorgan
What about the teachers and support staff that become infected through community transmission from children as hosts??? Complete disregard for teachers and their families
@missgeog92
@SRHT82
Don’t feel you need to explain yourself. We are a caring profession, we emotionally invest in our students, and when that care is taken for granted or without gratitude or respect it can make you question your effort. Well done for speaking aloud.
@gavreilly
Smaller classes, more teachers, more space, the same thing that those in education have been calling for over a very long time. Even without CoVid, this has been the solution to many of our problems in education. The DES decision making has been very poor..
I hope
@Education_Ire
have actually had discussion with teachers in advance of any announcement on best options for State Exams.. student voice, third level voice and parent voice heard, has the teacher voice been heard??
@McHughJoeTD
@ciarakellydoc
What? So you campaign to cancel the LC in July/Aug, and now want the primary schools to reopen? Madness on the basis of a flimsy non conclusive HIQA report.
@tim_brannigan
Disappointing targeting of a women, regardless of her social status or position. Comment on her politics, her stated position, her royalty, her privilege, but targeting her body is not ok.
@suttontonyj
@WhitmoreJen
With respect, every teacher has the child’s best interest central to their decision making. That is their role, that is their day to day operation. What is best for children is best for teachers, what is best for teachers is best for children.
@AodhanORiordain
An algorithm that was unfair, miscalculated grades, released class rankings despite assurances, hand sanitizer that burns skin, reduction of 40% in cleaning support, close contacts not id’d in schools, a misrepresentation of school CoVid cases, a disregard for trs in SEN settings
@AodhanORiordain
The incompetence within
@Education_Ire
is appalling.. all this leaking to the media, when plans are not yet issued. School management are under enormous pressure. This is sheer disregard for the size of the job.
@gavinjgallagher
@LeoVaradkar
To be fair, I think the queues are not due to people stockpiling just that the shops are adhering to social distance guidelines. The queues are to be expected. People need to learn to wait and be patient, perhaps Joe Public needs to be less judgemental too..
@Education_Ire
Has anyone there actually ever taught remotely? An honest question.. because if advice is on the basis of being well read on the issue, then perhaps the inspectorate need to offer themselves as subs to actually gain experience first.
@AdamPHarris
@INTOnews
Why is your status always to attack teachers? Are the support services open? Are the psychologists meeting students? Are the OTs working?
Yesterday; Teachers must predict grades..
Today; Teachers can’t be trusted..
Can’t all the supposed experts wait until we have facts and reduce this unhelpful speculation?
@alanbrogan13
Alan, you’ve supported a stream of teacher bashing.. you have a platform redirect it to the government and its agencies who have 10 months to prepare for contingency measures. There’s a global pandemic, people are dying, putting 30 people in a room goes against all medical advice
@Independent_ie
Rehabilitation article? Is this a sponsored post? Rest in Peace to his wife but this tragedy has nothing to do with the current financial mismanagement in RTÉ.
This midterm ‘break’ is a lie, so busy catching up on all the jobs that can’t be done when in work. It’s the thing people don’t appreciate about teaching.
@Independent_ie
He’s not been cancelled. His agent engaged in apparently fraudulent accountancy practices that he signed off on. He was not cancelled but held to account. Hue Edwards is on record historically as suffering with depression. Very different scenarios.
@rtenews
Ah the testing of anyone who spends 15 minutes unmasked in the company of a positive case in the 48 hours previously.. the mass testing 🤣🤣 If a principal confirms the school policy is mask wearing as per guidelines, then there are no close contacts.. ta dah.. schools are safe!
Big acknowledgement for those MVP students who always answer with a reassurance when I’m questioning and talking to a screen, and to the majority who announce a ‘Thanks Miss’ at the end of a class
#studentsarewonderful
#edchatie
Delighted to have completed my Advanced Diploma in Law & Education with
@KingsInns
Results out today, and delighted to have gotten through despite the hugely challenging year in education. Thanks to my students who allowed me to bounce my ideas off them all year!!
#AlwaysLearning