National Parents Council bash the teachers

national | consumer issues | opinion/analysis

Thursday January 29, 2004 23:17

by Phelim Murnion

phelimm at iolfree dot ie

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 ...