Teachers must not be ‘stampeded’ into accepting changes, says John MacGabhann
, TUI general secretary John MacGabhann said that second-level teachers must not be “stampeded” into accepting changes to the Leaving Cert.
“If an idea has merit and is worth pursuing, it will survive the tests we apply and we can support it . . . but we are duty-bound to interrogate proposed change,” he told delegates., emphasised that TUI guidelines meant that teachers should not correct the exam scripts or projects of their own students, take on additional workloads or support new initiatives which are not “fully resourced.
The cost of rental housing and the homelessness crisis has “resulted in huge insecurity and extortionate costs for teachers,” he went on. The loss of middle-management grades in schools third-level institutions has left them unable to provide academic pastoral and social support structures, while staff are struggling to make a decent living.
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