From top: Minister for Education Norma Foley outside the Department of Education in Dublin earlier; A carbon monoxide monitor for classrooms
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
…an order of carbon dioxide monitors for schools has arrived and will be distributed in the coming days.
Minister for Education Norma Foley said the monitors are “an additional tool” to aid ventilation and the recommendation is that they should be portable and shared between classrooms at different times of the day.
Anyone?
Meanwhile..
Ms Foley said that pilot antigen testing is being carried out in the childcare sector and at third level, and said should it be recommended that antigen testing be rolled out in schools, she will be happy to comply with that….
Ms Foley said the Department of Health has recommended the continued use of masks at secondary level and not primary.
Minister ‘confident’ of measures in place for school reopening (RTÉ)
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Meanwhile…
Norma Foley says the Dept of Ed sought the “best possible medical advice” for pregnant teachers and the “expert view” is that the classroom is an appropriate environment – but “there is a pregnancy-related leave” if individual worker’s GP sees it appropriate pic.twitter.com/kbGaEu5KTI
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) August 25, 2021
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Boyband impresario Louis Walsh helps Minister Foley launch the Arts Programme for Schools for reasons that remain unclear.
These are about €50 each retail, our government couldn’t be bothered buying enough for every classroom. That’s how critical covid is in their eyes
And how many classrooms are there?
back-of-envelope 800,000 school-age kids / 25 kids.room = 32,400 classrooms @€50 each = €1,620,000.
FFS they spent €800k rather than €1.6m? idiots.
Portable ones are probably a lot more expensive than the figures you’ve plucked out there.
Ah interesting. The schools which we were assured weren’t a place covid could spread in March when the kids were being sent back to school, but are apparently now that vaccines for teenagers are being pushed.
Norma meets her intellectual equal in Louis Walsh, together they will take on the world.
(Director- “can you two eejits stop eating the paint, what?, yes I know it’s on a plate, oh for fecks sake”)