Testing times for teachers [Independent.ie]
- Published: 11 April 2010
Ask any Minister for Education -- dealing with a room full of teachers these days is more about crowd control than learning. Gone are the days when you could stand up there and get some respect just for being who you are.
Just look at poor Mary Coughlan. On her first day in front of the teachers and the new head girl of the INTO, Sheila Nunan, says: "If you don't believe half the things you've heard about teachers, we won't believe half of the things we've heard about you." The cheek of her. This would never have happened if ministers were still allowed to slap teachers.
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