Originally Posted by Mr A
What a mess,really badly handled by the Caped Crusader,I'd say the school kids are thrilled,I know mine are.
What was wrong with leaving it up to individual schools as it was?
It's going to come to that anyway. There may be a slight thaw coming, but there are still roads and parts of the country that are awful. This morning was actually the most dangerous the roads have been where I am for the entirety of this cold spell.
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Yeah, but if he'd said nothign you wouldnt have parents who have taken tinme off work to mind kids who can go to school etc etc.
All he did is make a fairly straightforward situation a lot more complicated
ah well this is crap, my school is in city centre so yeah crap
Today is the worst of the days in Monaghan Town and I wont be sending Jake to school tomorrow if it continues like this. We had snow from early this morning until half 12 ish and the roads are lethal. Havent even gone home for lunch coz dont want to leave the office until I am not coming back. (Was given the afternoon off but hey I love my job so am still here!!)
To be fair this was a case of dammend if he did and dammened if he didn't scenario. You would always have someone one to Joe Duffy that it did not suit.
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Individual schools are still free to decide that their area remains too dangerous to reopen, but the majority will be safe enough. It's the right call.
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Got a text from my eldest Secondary school and they are remaining shut tomorrow and will decide about Wednesday tomorrow afternoon.
But the point is he did and then he didn't.
Either he should have made this call on Friday (leave it up to individual schools) or if making a decision like he did on Friday, stick to it.
I dont think there was any need for him to get involved and he only did so so it would look like the government were doing something.
No the situation changed, he made a decision on the basis of the recommendations from Met Eireann on Friday. This proved not to be the case on Sunday so made the decision on Monday morning to reverse it. I think thats fair enough to be honest.
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The forecast was bad - if it had come to pass the schools would've been closed anyway. There was no need for him to interfere. So he's only damned because he decided to try and make it look he was doing something.
Anyone listening to the Last Word tonight, or on Friday when it was originally broadcast? It was such an example joined up thinking from the Government that it was Matt Cooper that told the chair of the emergency committee that the Minister of Education had closed the schools!
Just more farce by a farcical Government - it beggars belief that some try and claim that a General Election and a change of Government would be a bad thing for the state.
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Why anyone would try to defend it is beyond me.
It's not the case that his interfering didn't change anything. The fact that he called it off and not the schools individually means that the schools don't have to make up those days.
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I can report from Athlone
Primary school A (summerhill N.S) open today tuesday
Primary B (ardkeenan N.S) Closed.
Distance between the two schools is 6km.
I'm sure there is a valid reason but strange nonetheless.
I agree, it should have been decieded locally by individual B O M though there were many in the media forcing him to make a decesion and he just hadn't a clue how to deal with it.
Last edited by Fr Damo; 12/01/2010 at 8:38 AM.
Really? I was under the impression that the days have to be made up anyway, but if that's true it makes his decision even more stupid and has other implications imo.
There could be any number of reasons - a north facing playground that hasn't thawed, dangerous slope on the route, burst pipes, where the teachers live etc.
Last edited by Macy; 12/01/2010 at 9:10 AM.
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Where did you hear this?
All schools I know are under the impression the days will be made up.
Schools have been making up the days for a long time now. Tuesday, for example, doesn't really exist.
Both my parents work in schools. Of course, they may have picked it up wrong.
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Turned out you were right on that, btw. He's appealling to teachers/ schools to make up the day he cost the children. Given that he was part of a Government that reneged on a deal that would've involved 2 days unpaid leave with one of the excuses/ bones of contention the possible loss of teaching days, if I was a teacher I know what I'd be telling him.
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