Sick days - Why are we so sick / lazy

[maxthedog]

Our TD's are also public servants. So are judges. They get far more holidays and are paid far more than any other public servant in this country. Why is no-one taking them to task over this? Or is this just a case of bash the fireman/nurse/garda?

Seeing as how my daughters maths teacher has headed of again for 3 weeks,

i think its more a constant 2 fingers from the pS

[myksav]

Sick days? What the heck are those? Oh, are those days when a body is unwell enough to prevent one working and getting paid?

Oh, silly me, I missed the bit about Public Sector in the article. Forgot that so many aren't self-employed.

[boo-boo]

Maybe, the real question is why people in this era should qualify to receive full sick pay from employment.

If their only source of income during these periods was illness benefit and they would be subject to the same medical reviews that the DSFA undertakes on other claimants this would sort these people out quite quickly and save the taxpayer considerable sums in outgoings in public sector salaries in the process.

[collina]

Seeing as how my daughters maths teacher has headed of again for 3 weeks,

i think its more a constant 2 fingers from the pS

Maybe he or she is sick. Do you want sick teachers teaching your children? Do you think people get sick on purpose? Just to give you and your daughters the two fingers? Does the absence of the teacher not effect the children of public servants and private sector workers equally?
Do you realise you can educate your children at home if you choose?

[myksav]

Maybe he or she is sick. Do you want sick teachers teaching your children? Do you think people get sick on purpose? Just to give you and your daughters the two fingers? Does the absence of the teacher not effect the children of public servants and private sector workers equally?
Do you realise you can educate your children at home if you choose?

Once a child is registered in the education system, it takes a lot of legal effort to remove a child from the system and home educate them.

Certain sectors are granted a set number of sick days, with full pay. This is effectively an addendum to the paid leave every worker is supposed to get by law. It encourages taking extra days full-pay leave from work, the "yerra, they're there anyway, let's take 'em" attitude.

Too sick to work, get a certificate of illness from a doctor or do without the pay for those days.
Want a day or two off, use annual leave or do without the pay for those days.

[maxthedog]

Maybe he or she is sick. Do you want sick teachers teaching your children? Do you think people get sick on purpose? Just to give you and your daughters the two fingers? Does the absence of the teacher not effect the children of public servants and private sector workers equally?
Do you realise you can educate your children at home if you choose?

The teacher has gone on a trip for three weeks, she loves her foriegn travel, even during the closure due to the weather she headed of for another city break,

I do teach my children at home, such is the lack of interest in their education at school, I put in 2 hours a night making sure they get thier work done and helping out.

Strangley when they end up in college the teaching profession is quick to take the credit.

But I reckon they are most are only 60% involved, some far less and a few decent ones are definitly well intentioned.

But higher level maths teacher off to foriegn climes, for three weeks, during group cert year, bad news and should be sacked

[uriah]

The teacher has gone on a trip for three weeks, she loves her foriegn travel, even during the closure due to the weather she headed of for another city break,

I do teach my children at home, such is the lack of interest in their education at school, I put in 2 hours a night making sure they get thier work done and helping out.

Strangley when they end up in college the teaching profession is quick to take the credit.

But I reckon they are most are only 60% involved, some far less and a few decent ones are definitly well intentioned.

But higher level maths teacher off to foriegn climes, for three weeks, during group cert year, bad news and should be sacked

How is this allowed? A teacher taking leave in the middle of term, leaving students without classes, seems outrageous. I hope you have lodged an official complaint (written) with the Board of Management and the DES.

BTW, what is 'group cert'?

[maxthedog]

How is this allowed? A teacher taking leave in the middle of term, leaving students without classes, seems outrageous. I hope you have lodged an official complaint (written) with the Board of Management and the DES.

BTW, what is 'group cert'?

In my day it was the inter cert, due to constant name changes , I am unsure what it is called at this precise moment and the name could be changed again tomorrow,

[uriah]

In my day it was the inter cert, due to constant name changes , I am unsure what it is called at this precise moment and the name could be changed again tomorrow,

You are tutoring your child for two hours per night for an examination and you do not know the name of that examination?

Constant name changes? The Leaving cert. has been around for as long as I can remember. The 'inter' (intermediate certificate) replaced by the 'Juniour Cert. in the late eighties (it is certainly twenty years old)

Teachers taking three weeks holidays during school term?

All smells a bit fishy to me.

Have you lodged that official complaint?

[maxthedog]

[QUOTE=uriah;2437376]You are tutoring your child for two hours per night for an examination and you do not know the name of that examination?

Constant name changes? The Leaving cert. has been around for as long as I can remember. The 'inter' (intermediate certificate) replaced by the 'Juniour Cert. in the late eighties (it is certainly twenty years old)

Teachers taking three weeks holidays during school term?

All smells a bit fishy to me.

Have you lodged that official complaint?[/QUOT

Will give you the full low down tomorrow evening , all the gory details. Will ask my daughter to check.

Where the teacher is, who has replaced her.Will not name the school or teacher. (would be wrong to drag Pie into any form of libel action.

As for the exam name , I had genuinly thought the name had changed again, had mistaken talk of exam reform and actual exam reform, my appoligies.

Untill tomorrow.