Just watched this video. Just awful. Imagine your whole life being changed, work, hobbies, and it being so bad you’d consider amputation. And that it happened in a classroom. So many special education teachers and SNAs are facing violence in their classrooms every day. I really don’t know what the answer is though.
Accurate_Natural_296 on
Awful, fucking awful.
CurrencyDesperate286 on
Just looked up an article on this and wtf?
“Figures obtained by RTÉ News from the Department of Education show that more than 2,000 primary and secondary school teachers and SNAs have availed of the Government’s assault leave scheme since it was set up in 2017.
Up to the end of October this year, 360 school staff took leave due to being assaulted.”
Like 500 teachers taking assault leave a year??
Inside_Ad_6312 on
I don’t think we need to demonise Special Ed at the moment and it’s disgusting to see words like assault used in media (i know they’re DoE words) when there is no intent
The reality of Special Ed is that there will be a higher risk of injuries just due to the nature of the job. It should be a higher paid job and this person should be fully supported financially.
What is crazy to me is that most teachers get 0 training in these environments and are expected to get on with it without any techniques and with insufficient staff ratios.
strokejammer on
My wife is a special ed teacher, she has just returned from assault leave. So far this year herself and two of her three snas have been off due to injury. Next year they are going to attempt to integrate every child bar 1 into mainstream because they have been denied the resources for next year…its like the government are playing with numbers like they do homelessness, it’s so messed up!
865Wallen on
And yet she probably earns 30 grand a year while people make bank working in tech sales and that is fine but society seems to be blissfully ignorant to the fact that we need people like this for it to function but be do nothing to incentivise it 😂
Tenvsvitalogy on
Grim.
Zapper_jnr on
I pity the teachers and staff. But I also pity the parents and sibling of the kids. They are getting injured at home. More support and home help for families and schools. When the pupil becomes unmanageable then residential care should become available not waiting 4 to 6 years for a place to become available.
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Just watched this video. Just awful. Imagine your whole life being changed, work, hobbies, and it being so bad you’d consider amputation. And that it happened in a classroom. So many special education teachers and SNAs are facing violence in their classrooms every day. I really don’t know what the answer is though.
Awful, fucking awful.
Just looked up an article on this and wtf?
“Figures obtained by RTÉ News from the Department of Education show that more than 2,000 primary and secondary school teachers and SNAs have availed of the Government’s assault leave scheme since it was set up in 2017.
Up to the end of October this year, 360 school staff took leave due to being assaulted.”
Like 500 teachers taking assault leave a year??
I don’t think we need to demonise Special Ed at the moment and it’s disgusting to see words like assault used in media (i know they’re DoE words) when there is no intent
The reality of Special Ed is that there will be a higher risk of injuries just due to the nature of the job. It should be a higher paid job and this person should be fully supported financially.
What is crazy to me is that most teachers get 0 training in these environments and are expected to get on with it without any techniques and with insufficient staff ratios.
My wife is a special ed teacher, she has just returned from assault leave. So far this year herself and two of her three snas have been off due to injury. Next year they are going to attempt to integrate every child bar 1 into mainstream because they have been denied the resources for next year…its like the government are playing with numbers like they do homelessness, it’s so messed up!
And yet she probably earns 30 grand a year while people make bank working in tech sales and that is fine but society seems to be blissfully ignorant to the fact that we need people like this for it to function but be do nothing to incentivise it 😂
Grim.
I pity the teachers and staff. But I also pity the parents and sibling of the kids. They are getting injured at home. More support and home help for families and schools. When the pupil becomes unmanageable then residential care should become available not waiting 4 to 6 years for a place to become available.