The Taoiseach has given every child in Ireland a day off homework, in exchange for a kind deed, as part of National Confidence Day. pic.twitter.com/2cHwZMQE4S
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) March 24, 2022
Huh?
This morning.
Anyone?
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Everything. As It Happens.
What an idiot
The most important days a human has is their education and him a school teacher on a 40year career break
How DARE he try to teach children there might be more to life than an endless grind of toil and resentment!
Indeed, what they need to learn is how to fill out Australian or US visa applications so they might one day be able to own a home of their own.
”No homework tonight kids, why not go out and be nice to a homeless person, every day that passes with me and Leonidas in the driving seat increase the likelihood that YOU might find yourself on the streets one day!”
oh I laughed
Haha. Australia does not have affordable housing either.
Affordability has deteriorated more in Australia than in other comparable countries. According to the 2021 Demographia Housing Affordability Survey, the median multiple of house prices to income for major cities is 7.7 times in Australia compared to 4.8 times in the UK and 4.2 times in the US. In Sydney, it’s 11.8 times and in Melbourne its 9.7 times.
https://www.ampcapital.com/europe/en/insights-hub/articles/2021/september/wh-is-australian-housing-so-expensive-and-what-can-be-done-to-improve-housing-affordability
C+… must try harder.
i always reckoned martin was more of ‘C+++’ myself.
‘Huh?’
I know, right? Slotting ths one into the Grand Conspiracy Theory Of Everything is going to be a challenge. Something about indoctrintated woke virtue signalling undermining decadent western resolve and emboldening the brave and mighty Putin to teach us how to be MEN. No chance of it being exactly what it claims to be? Course not.
Jaysus… have a lie down while the rest of us enjoy the humour.
I was being humourous, or is it only supposed to go one way?
Oh… OK.. that’s your humour, fair enuff. Each to their own.
Forgive the whooooooosh over my head on that one then, ta.
No problem.
Nigel – you don’t have to convince us you’ve lost it. That’s been clear for quite a while now.
Is this your kind deed for the day? It’s not very good.
Madeleine’s younger brother, Notat.
You cant force me to be kind you bloody backstards
What will he do for National No Confidence Day?
Give the kids double homework?
Does his speech template always start with ”I’d like to take this opportunity to…” he needs to change it up a bit.
In terms of what at this juncture?
And is there to be any check on whether a kind deed has been done? Perhaps an essay on what was done and for whom? Without a check, it’s teaching children how to get out of jobs. With a check, it becomes an imposition. Whatever happened to the idea that you did a kind deed because that was a good thing to do, not to get some sort of reward?
He’s FF, every single aspect of his life is transactional.
All his kids were conceived after he cleaned the gutters, did the washing up or cut the grass.
The kindest people I know are kids.
They don’t need to be asked to be kind.
I know MM means no harm here.
It’s the most harmless thing I’ve heard about in ages, God love us.
Little miss came home from school with a big smile on her face. It doesn’t take much to make their day, and this is a nice little gesture.
Have folks forgotten what it’s like to be a kid?
well, i didn’t brush my teeth this morning, haven’t made the bed, haven’t tidied any of the dishes away and i’ve been giving nothing but cheek all day.
so no.
Proper LOL to both yiz… Scotter and Millie :)
Kids actually get a kick out of being kind.
The amount of small, thoughtful little acts that are reported to me from a day in school by my pair would bring a tear to a glass eye. As would their excitement at thinking about something kind they might do for someone they know. Sure on Paddy’s Day morning they were both up at cock-crow to leave little paper-bags of sweets they’d designed themselves on the doorsteps of kids they know in the vicinity. The sweets were signed off as being from “Larry the Leprechaun.” They’re already better people than I am.
Irish kids may be kind, but German kids are kinder.
Top marks. No homework for you.
No eccker one day means double eccker the next day… every child knows that..
Would have been better to give them Friday homework off.
It just all seems a bit Tayto Park. Is there not a point at which adults put away childish things? Most of us reached it round 2015.