Image: Sam Boal Image: Sam Boal OPPOSITION TDS HAVE been reacting to the government’s plan to get children back to school this autumn.
Lunch breaks and school start times are set to be staggered, while the wearing of face coverings will not be compulsory in classrooms. Despite the promise of over 1,000 extra teacher posts being provided at second level, 600 of them immediately, there is no commitment to a lower pupil teacher ratio at primary level, which Ó Ríordáin describes as “really disappointing”.
He questioned why a large-scale recruitment drive for teachers wasn’t launched then, instead of four weeks out. The minister said yesterday that the department would have a national call out for trained, qualified teachers to get back into the classroom.
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