Teachers get it handy!

[Jim Bob]

Any principal worth his/her salt would ask parents to apply for placement identifying why or how they are key workers...not just open the gates for everyone and anyone to walk in...

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Any principal worth his/her salt would ask parents to apply for placement identifying why or how they are key workers...not just open the gates for everyone and anyone to walk in...

But again, what is a key worker

[Jim Bob]

List available online.....

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

List available online.....

Yeah probably is, but the issue is this.
We have key workers who can send children to school and then we have people who have been told they have to be at work but aren't on list and therefore can't send wains to school. A lot of issues there. Hierarchy of workers?

[Itchy]

List available online.....

Yeah probably is, but the issue is this.
We have key workers who can send children to school and then we have people who have been told they have to be at work but aren't on list and therefore can't send wains to school. A lot of issues there. Hierarchy of workers?

Looks teachers should send these little pests home. The key priority here is keeping what ever teachers have survived this pandemic alive and if that means frontline workers need to stay at home from work and teach their children so be it. Anyway, why can these so called front line workers (we all know that teachers are the real front line workers) not bring their laptops to work with them and do skype teaching calls with their little brats themselves. See how they like it. The priority here must be to keep our teachers 100% safe and be 100% certain none of them get a head cold never mind covid.

[square_ball]

Any principal worth his/her salt would ask parents to apply for placement identifying why or how they are key workers...not just open the gates for everyone and anyone to walk in...

Our local primary school requires details of the key worker role the parent is doing before allocating spaces. And another primary school in the area requires both parents to be key workers.

[NAG1]

Any principal worth his/her salt would ask parents to apply for placement identifying why or how they are key workers...not just open the gates for everyone and anyone to walk in...

Our local primary school requires details of the key worker role the parent is doing before allocating spaces. And another primary school in the area requires both parents to be key workers.

And others just seem to be letting any pupil attend without any sort of rationale.

Again should have been taken out of the schools hands and clear directives laid down above them from DE. The lack of leadership from the department is staggering on most issues they have faced since the beginning of this pandemic.

[Milltown Row2]

So where schools are taking in children and half the kids are at home being home schooled or doing lessons online, will the children in school be in a better position educational wise, for being taught in class?

[Maroon Manc]

So where schools are taking in children and half the kids are at home being home schooled or doing lessons online, will the children in school be in a better position educational wise, for being taught in class?

I doubt it, my 6 year old is getting a lot more one on one teaching then she would in the classroom and is certainly getting a lot more work done.

[JimStynes]

So where schools are taking in children and half the kids are at home being home schooled or doing lessons online, will the children in school be in a better position educational wise, for being taught in class?

Seems to be more one to one teaching for the younger classes when they're at home. But they miss out on all the social skills they learn through play. The older KS2 classes work that is handed on Google Classroom is a lot worse than it would be in school.   

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

So where schools are taking in children and half the kids are at home being home schooled or doing lessons online, will the children in school be in a better position educational wise, for being taught in class?

You would have to assume that the school teaching is better, parents aren't qualified teachers and couldn't dedicate the same amount of time.

But it this way I wouldn't ever expect a teacher to do my engineering job to the same standard that I do, takes years to learn these skills at uni and on the job.

[JoG2]

So where schools are taking in children and half the kids are at home being home schooled or doing lessons online, will the children in school be in a better position educational wise, for being taught in class?

I'd say no, for 2 reasons (primary school level) . Those in school will, from I've heard be clumped with pupils from other years ie P1-4 in a classroom or 2. P5-P7 clumped together. Teachers changing day by day. So those in school will be running through the same stuff as those at home. And, it's only a matter of weeks in the grand scheme of things

[restorepride]

So where schools are taking in children and half the kids are at home being home schooled or doing lessons online, will the children in school be in a better position educational wise, for being taught in class?

At secondary level, most (maybe all?) pupils are simply being supervised - and not by teachers!  So they learn on-line like the rest, just from the school building rather than from home.

[Milltown Row2]

Wife bumped into one of the other teachers today at the shop, asked her how she getting on, and she brought up that she'd been leaving her nipper into nursery and was home schooling the other while doing her online teaching!

The nursery owner told her that she'll only look after the child on the days she'd be off as she works  3 days!

Teachers are key workers? So should be able to have kids minded?

[Itchy]

Wife bumped into one of the other teachers today at the shop, asked her how she getting on, and she brought up that she'd been leaving her nipper into nursery and was home schooling the other while doing her online teaching!

The nursery owner told her that she'll only look after the child on the days she'd be off as she has not died 3 days!

Teachers are key workers? So should be able to have kids minded?

Yeh, absolutely. The parents of the kids they are not teaching should mind the teachers kids too. Scandal they had to go to such a dangerous place as a shop too. Get those useless gimps in the department to deliver them food.