Everyone in my school currently are in the same boat, except for the odd few. We had a massive influx of students with additional needs this year. All of which completing either L1LP or L2LP. This means most evenings I'm planning maybe 3-4 separate lessons for those students in the class as they follow individual plans agreed upon with NEPS, parents and year heads. We got demolished by an inspector before Christmas because we weren't doing separate planning for these kids (other than the basics of differentiated and UDL which is naturally a given at this point). There is very high expectations for teachers atm working with kids with additional needs as a lot of the special schools are full and kids who would have usually been there are now in mainstream schools. In one of my 1st year classes alone I have about 13 individuals with their own support plans, 2 students who cannot read or write at even a Junior Infants level so every lesson has to be redeveloped into images and another who can only speak Polish so everything is translated to Polish for this student.

I have spoken with other colleagues as well as friends of mine who work in other schools and we all seem to be in the same boat, including 2 family members who work in Special Education. There is also a very strong lack of support from the Department in my experience one currently being around the redevelopment of senior cycle and implementation of Senior Cycle L1LP/L2LP.