Upcoming Events

National | Consumer Issues

no events match your query!

New Events

National

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

The Saker
A bird's eye view of the vineyard

offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

The Saker >>

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs Mon Jan 13, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Twenty one years ago, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Asian rape gangs in Bradford after coming under pressure from an 'anti-racist' group that included several senior members of the British establishment.
The post The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jan 13, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? Sun Jan 12, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.
The post ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal Sun Jan 12, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The APPG's dangerously vague definition of Islamophobia is smothering free speech and silencing critical discussions on grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator.
The post ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Wokeism Is Destroying the West Sun Jan 12, 2025 15:00 | Sallust
Sallust draws eerie parallels between the decline of the Roman Empire and the current state of Western civilisation.
The post How Wokeism Is Destroying the West appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

National Parents Council bash the teachers

category national | consumer issues | opinion/analysis author Thursday January 29, 2004 23:17author by Phelim Murnionauthor email phelimm at iolfree dot ie Report this post to the editors

Parent teacher meetings

The demand of the National Parents Council that teachers be available in the evenings has nothing to do with Parenting and everything to do with the new Amercanised workplace where we live to work rather than work to live. Definitely more Boston than Berlin.

Once again the National Parents Council lines up beside the right-wing government to bash the teachers. This time they condemn teachers because they won't work late hours so that parents can finish work and then attend meetings.

Let me see if I get this right. It is too much trouble to get a half hour off work to oversee the education of your flesh and blood ( as opposed to say visiting the bank for yet another loan). And this is proposed by the National, wait for it, "Parents" Council!
Shouldn't that be the National Worker Ant Council?
I'm not alone in giving out that the PD's (with only 8 TD's) are running the country. It's worse than that; they're running the culture. This is indoctrination at a level that would cause envy in Herr Goebbels. I thought we worked to live ... ?

Speaking as a Parent, I am formally resigning from this particular club.

It's ironic that the nearest topic I could find to categorise this story was "Consumer Issues". Has even Indymedia been corrupted ...

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   ???     Michael Turley    Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:46 
   It is a problem     turleywatch    Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:58 
   Teachers     Leon    Fri Jan 30, 2004 13:23 
   Steady on     Watching turleywatch    Fri Jan 30, 2004 13:28 
   FF are not workers     as4    Fri Jan 30, 2004 13:41 
   Parents     Michael Turley    Fri Jan 30, 2004 13:57 
   teachers     Leon    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:02 
   Not about workers solidarity     as4    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:02 
   Michael     Turley    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:04 
 10   Leon is an ultra     as4    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:06 
 11   Really?     Michael Turley    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:27 
 12   Worse before better     Leon    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:33 
 13   NPC is not representative     as4    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:34 
 14   Leon the ultra     as4    Fri Jan 30, 2004 14:35 
 15   Just been to parent teacher meetings     Parent    Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:50 
 16   Re. [1] This is how the relationship is expressed in English, which is a shit language     flowery language    Sat Jan 31, 2004 15:40 
 17   What leon probably meant..     David    Sat Jan 31, 2004 15:44 
 18   Well now indeed .....     flowery language    Sat Jan 31, 2004 16:41 
 19   Wake up Phelim     clarion call    Sun Feb 01, 2004 13:01 
 20   Professional Educator     A. Teacher    Fri May 28, 2004 04:11 
 21   i hate meeting the parents.     as well    Fri May 28, 2004 20:36 


Number of comments per page
  
 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy