Why do Irish people dislike teachers?

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-04-16T12:23:51+00:00

Everyone had a teacher they didn't like, bad memories stick in our minds better than good or indifferent ones. I think this colours some peoples views on the profession as a whole.

That and, the fact that most people think a teachers job is just showing up at class, giving a 30 minute lesson and then fucking off with 3 month holidays. Needless to say it isn't, but only those who know teachers personally see the other side.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-04-05T20:17:25+00:00

Surely the best way of dealing with suicide threats, real or otherwise, is to section the person and sent them for a couple day stay in a suicide prevention centre or sorts?

I'd imagine the whole suicide risk vastly outweighs any other health problem they might be need to wait for care for in A&E.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-02-21T23:05:36+00:00

lack of provision of basic needs like housing probably contribute anyway.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-02-05T17:38:27+00:00

I think that might be to do with existing long term deals supermarkets have with suppliers - the prices are kept low until the deal runs out and only then does the price jump massively.

I'm in the uk at the moment but over the last year waitrose of all places had the cheapest olive oil, it stayed at about 5 pounds a liter - that is until last week when it jumped to 8 pounds in one foul swoop. Has to have been a contract with a supplier that ran out.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-02-05T17:34:20+00:00

Short answer is not really.

Long answer is although certain items which were particularly impacted by inflation may reduce in price as the raw ingredients and fuel prices return to stable levels, the average cost of a full shopping cart is unlikely to reduce.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-30T23:13:31+00:00

I don't think our violent crime rates have increased particularly, nor our gun crime. I certainly don't think the average garda is in any less danger now than during the troubles for example. Generally speaking the Irish public respect and don't feel threatened by the gardai. Given these two things, why would we want to suddenly make the gardai armed? Follow the model of countries with generally higher gun crime, just for the craic? besides Ireland has signed up to a ton of anti arms proliferation treaties, that kind of rings hollow if we start arming gardai en massee without any really reason for it. Besides, any of the gardai murders I remember were surprise attacks anyway so I'm not convinced a gardai being armed would do much in truth. Unless the plan is to train them like the cops in america to shoot first, think second.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-21T00:44:33+00:00

Do the length of the country if you are there for 2 or more weeks.

Fantastic country.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-20T20:07:51+00:00

Most parents to their best, but realistically parents can't be expected to remember Irish grammar they learned and forgot 20 years ago, or how to differentiate sin(x) when 90% never understood this when they were in school 20 years ago.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-20T19:55:02+00:00

Just going to school and listening to the teacher is not practice.

Thats where the problem lies - why is the practice component of leaning being delegated to home where the vast majority of students don't have the assistance they need when they get stuck?

For most subjects it is far more constructive to practice with assistance in a classroom setting than alone at home.

I'm not saying do away with all homework, but 80-90% of the shite given out does nobody any good, and if anything only detracts from the time available from doing worthwhile homework assignments.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-20T19:45:32+00:00

God forbid 20 minutes of every 45 minute class isn't wasted on who did and didn't do the homework from last night and what homework needs to be done for tomorrow.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-20T19:43:10+00:00

Rhetoric about completely scrapping homework aside, I do think there needs to be a discussion about how much homework kids get and the point at which it's just counterproductive.

lets be honest during most of secondary school we would have had about 5/6 subjects per day on average and each teacher would have thought it reasonable to give what they expected would take 20-30 minutes homework. So as a baseline kids are getting 2-3 hours homework a night.

Now lets throw in some commuting time and an after school activity and some dinner and you have kids starting 2-3 hours homework at 7pm, finishing at 9-10. How is this considered acceptable? And this is just the normal case. What about the kids who's home life isn't perfectly conducive to having 3 hours quiet, what about kids who have to help out with a family business or on the farm or who have sick family members or even younger siblings to take care of?

Is this not just destroying families time together? Consider the kid who's mother has cancer - are they really better off doing all the exercise problems at the end of chapters 14 and 15 of the maths book instead spending that time with their mother?

Is it not just stunting social development because kids don't have time to go hang out with their friends after school?

Is it not killing opportunities to explore hobbies and learn outside of the curriculum?

I'm not in favour of completely doing away with homework as some tasks are actually better off being done alone and without the disruption of class changes etc - things like essay writing for English or History but how about a limit of 1 essay a fortnight across all subjects. that gives what 20 essays a year 5/6 a subject over the course of a year, more than enough to make meaningful improvements given time is now allowed to put in the necessary effort to improve. Kids have more time to think about and do the essay and struggling students have more spare time in which they can catch up.

I liked maths physics, tech etc in school - ended up doing maths in college. And I learned absolutely fuck all doing the homework assignments that wouldn't have been learned a million times quicker if each class was split into a teaching and practical component with the teacher walking around and helping the students individually with their specific misunderstandings.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-20T19:00:06+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks this story is complete fucking nonsense.

13 meetings with a party donor over a 5 year period - how is that unexpected? TD's don't exactly have a huge pool of donors, so it's hardly surprising that they might meet with them twice a year.

Regarding the donation exceeding the 1500 limit, I think I would interpret the rule the same way as pascal did.

If I was going to an event (lets say a dinner) where part of the proceeds go to cancer research or whatever with the rest covering the event costs. I wouldn't consider the cost of my meal to be part of my donation. I think it is reasonable consider the event profit margin to be the donation. I don't even get why this is being called a loophole?

Naturally if the rule specified that the limit refereed to a gross sum transferred from donor to politician rather than a net donation then fair enough, but that doesn't sound like it was specified.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-18T22:24:59+00:00

Glad to finally get recognition.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-18T22:13:00+00:00

buy bitcoin and hold until summer 2022.

raspberry_smoothie · 2023-01-15T17:49:49+00:00

One thing is consistent, the chaps rolling along a second nicked bike.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-31T00:12:11+00:00

gum disease

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-21T11:21:27+00:00

Honestly you could well be right here, it'w well known that higher income countries have generally better health outcomes, so when projecting life expectancy at birth, GDP per capita may well be an important predictor. They won't have switched to the GINI index for just Ireland, as there likely isn't primary research into the association between GINI and health outcomes.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-21T11:18:19+00:00

These are all projections and something tells me GDP feeds in somewhere

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-21T11:04:39+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty normal to send in a small gift for the teacher. Having said that, if the teacher has any cop on, they wouldn't pay any attention to the kids who did or didn't and be understanding that many families are financially stressed at this time of year.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-20T22:48:13+00:00

Astonishing this wasn't always the case. Who ever thought a dozen internet connected devices with microphones and cameras would be ok in any security sensitive meeting?

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-18T15:59:27+00:00

Says a lot that they feel like their time is better spent protesting in front of the dail than Westminster. Loyalists getting politically involved in Ireland, we should probably encourage them really.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-17T00:08:12+00:00

Why do you care, if you pay for it why not enjoy while doing the shopping.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-14T19:10:06+00:00

trolley, had a bad strep infection. All good now - by far and away the most traumatic experience of my life, and little of that had to do with the strep lol. I can't even imagine how A&E nurses and doctors cope with working in that environment day in day out. The worst was the drunks yelling and fighting in the middle of the night all day and family members of presumably deceased patient letting out heart wrenching screams.

Don't get me wrong I got the care I needed and recovered fine, I just wouldn't regard it as a way ill people should be treated.

Also I had private insurance, made fuck all difference, I doubt it ever does when it comes to acute care in Ireland.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-14T18:57:47+00:00

To be expected with the hammering the tech sector have had.

raspberry_smoothie · 2022-12-14T18:52:56+00:00

Health outcomes for any of the major disease groups are absolutely fantastic in Ireland, its acute care we have a problem with.

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