Disabled NI teacher told to 'grit teeth and get on with it'

A disabled teacher in Northern Ireland was allegedly told to "grit teeth and get on with it" after asking for help in the workplace.

Fermanagh teacher Pauline Hurst the UTU’s newly appointed Disability Champion said: "The woman, who suffers from chronic pain and arthritis, had asked for reasonable adjustments with regard to how she marked pupils’ work.

“It beggars belief that in 2024 this is even an issue given that schools have come so far – and rightly so – in the support of pupils with a disability or health condition, yet the Education Authority doesn’t even have statistics on the number of teachers with a disability. “We’ve teachers leaving the profession because they just don’t feel they can ask for basic accommodations to be made while the Education Authority and Department of Education don’t seem to have an accepted protocol for such cases.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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