Blameless and not their fault are two different things.
The teachers and the unions, themselves are the very ones who complain the loudest when it comes to changing ANY of the terms set down by the department.
So in my opinion they are not blameless!
Some of the above comments remind me of the goings on in the Soviet Union, where everything in society was dictated by the state e.g. where people worked, what they did, how they did it.
Apparently, we are not living in a totalitarian state (yet). Although, teachers (like many others in the PS) will blame 'the department' when it suits e.g. hours etc are laid down by the department . Of course, they will attack the department at the merest hint of any real change.
Teachers should work significantly longer hours, for in-service training, and increased contact time with pupils e.g. through shorter holidays. Perish the thought that teachers might become tired through such exertions. I mean, most of us in the real world (lucky enough to have a job) know what tiredness is all about - it's a fact of life.
But wait, I'm forgetting - part of our society is indeed Soviet in nature - just like the communist party apparatchiks, who ran the USSR to serve their own narrow interests. This approach worked wonderfully for decades, until......they 'ran' the country into the ground.......sound familiar?
Your 'forced labour camp' comment is I suspect, how most PS employees view the experience of employees in the private sector i.e. compulsory redundancy, restructuring, emigration.....are for the 'others', and not for the 'elite' insiders......
I prefer to see it for what it is...a well organised and powerful vested interest group (the teachers unions) aligning with another powerful vested interest group (FF) to stitch up Joe & Josephine public. Warren Buffett said 'it is only when the tide goes out, that you can see who is swimming naked'. FF are starkers....so to are their friends in ICTU........and both are trying to cover up their modesty with
tired and washed up rhetoric...
A plot !
Engineered by the Dept. Of Education , the employees union , the parent's organisation and the schools , all with the connivance of the Evil Empire of FF - all determined to hoodwink the public !
Are you Jim Corr ?
A plot !
Engineered by the Dept. Of Education , the employees union , the parent's organisation and the schools , all with the connivance of the Evil Empire of FF - all determined to hoodwink the public !
Are you Jim Corr ?
What a red herring!!, I could have asked on several occasions,,,,Are you Jack O Connor..
Anyhow DonDUB as Purple mentioned in an earlier post,dont get distracted ..
Vested interests are alive and kicking..and throwing red herrings around left right and centre...ùsually from the left at the right and centre!
You have made excellent posts,but childish responses asking if you are Jim Corr, just show how some have no sense of mature debate..Its a real sense of desperation..which is good..they are not the only ones sensing what is coming down the tracks ,change is coming, regardless..
Ah-ha, Deise, you've been outed and exposed as a fraud!!!!!
You're not DeiseBLUE at all. You're really DeiseRED!
Ah-ha, Deise, you've been outed and exposed as a fraud!!!!!
You're not DeiseBLUE at all. You're really DeiseRED!
Damn , found out by a combination of Don Dub and Thedaras !
Your 'forced labour camp' comment is I suspect, how most PS employees view the experience of employees in the private sector i.e. compulsory redundancy, restructuring, emigration.....are for the 'others', and not for the 'elite' insiders......
What a red herring!!, I could have asked on several occasions,,,,Are you Jack O Connor..
Anyhow DonDUB as Purple mentioned in an earlier post,dont get distracted ..
Vested interests are alive and kicking..and throwing red herrings around left right and centre...ùsually from the left at the right and centre!
You have made excellent posts,but childish responses asking if you are Jim Corr, just show how some have no sense of mature debate..Its a real sense of desperation..which is good..they are not the only ones sensing what is coming down the tracks ,change is coming, regardless..
Ahh you guys... I'm feeling rather bullied by your last EIGHT posts! Are you trying desperately to say something,but cant quite find the words..bless..
Whenever you two decide to leave the playground and come back to the adult world of debate and discussion on a mature level.. perhaps we can have a reasonable debate.
Vested interests are alive and kicking..and throwing red herrings around left right and centre...ùsually from the left at the right and centre!
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This has to be the quote of the day !!!
Vested interests are alive and kicking..and throwing red herrings around left right and centre...ùsually from the left at the right and centre!
QUOTE]
This has to be the quote of the day !!!
Surely with all those red herrings flying all over the place - it should be - catch of the day ! Boom Boom
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