schools

AGENDA

‘While the Department and unions bicker, our children remain in educational limbo’

Attempts to bring children with additional learning needs back to schools early have failed. The second u-turn in…

By Amanda Cassidy

SELF

‘Dangling children’s schooling over our heads to get us to “behave” over Christmas is poor form’

Tony Holohan is appealing to parents to follow public health guidelines so schools can reopen in January. But…

By Amanda Cassidy

School

AGENDA, SELF

Secret diary of a pandemic teacher: ‘Something more sinister has raised its head within this new school regime’

An Irish primary school teacher shares her experience of the first week back in school I find it…

By IMAGE

reopening schools

EDITORIAL

We asked teachers what they’re really thinking about schools reopening

We asked teachers how they think reopening schools will affect students and staff. This is what they said.…

By Shayna Sappington

EDITORIAL

Is it time we stopped thinking of children as coronavirus super-spreaders?

With more and more research appearing, is it time we stopped thinking of children as coronavirus super-spreaders? When…

By Edaein OConnell

EDITORIAL

IMAGEWrites: Lucy White remembers the horrors of the exam hall and wonders why the system has barely changed

As the government wrangles with its “Plan B”, our writer remembers the institutional horrors of the exam hall…

By Lucy White