Cinque scuole hanno più personale degli alunni – Dept Education
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0313/1501763-small-schools/
di mind_thegap1
Cinque scuole hanno più personale degli alunni – Dept Education
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0313/1501763-small-schools/
di mind_thegap1
12 commenti
>A Co Kerry primary school, which last September recorded just one pupil enroled, has a staffing allocation of two teachers and one SNA.
A grand job if you can get it.
Must be slightly sad for a child to be the only pupil in their school.
> The department added that a decision to close a school is one made in the first instance by the school patron.
Well there’s your problem. You’re sitting around waiting for a priest to call it a day on their little government funded and staffed fiefdom.
I like the idea that small schools exist, its a feature of the rurality of some of Ireland, but these seem to be particularly taking the piss.
5 schools with 9 pupils.
Not one of them should reopen on Monday, they are all less than 8km from another school so the students should be moved immediately. If parents don’t have transport they can arrange a school bus.
With falling birthrates, this is going to become very common.
Outside of island communities, there really should be no reason many of these schools are still open.
Thanks to our religious ethos/sponsor and male/female divided schools —
“Compared to other developed countries, Ireland has a large proportion of very small schools. While some of those schools serve isolated communities, such as island communities, most are located close to other similar schools.”
Can’t beat doing things as inefficiently as possible.
I take it the government or at least our British media want to privatize all aspects of education. Who will they sell it to, who will we be renting it from?
Speaking as a rural parent, sending a child to sit in a big empty room with just another adult seems awful for that child. Sure its going to get great one to one teaching but theyre missing out on so much more. I dont know if closing the school is the answer (thats just another thing that will help to kill rural communities) but maybe other students can come from other schools
In most cases these schools with very low enrolment are close to other schools (in Kerry, the one with a single pupil is 600 meters from another primary school…!) Govt should force the issue, if we’re paying for the whole show the patrons can get stuffed. Dept of Education could replace the schools with taxi drivers who will take the one, two, five pupils door to door every single school day and save money on the outlay for staff of pensionable teachers and SNAs, who are desperately needed elsewhere.
Did a bit of looking into it
Seems the other primary school in Lixnaw became co educational, vertical school in 2021 and was refurbished.
Before they were one accepting one gender between 1st and 6th class.