Dept of Education & Skills insists kids attend school closed for 41 years

[Ah Well]

Only in Ireland :rolleyes:

EFFORTS were ongoing this week to retain a rural school bus service after the Dept of Education left parents bewildered by apparently insisting children attend a school closed for the last 41 years.

An archaic law by the Primary School Transport Service, if enforced, will see the Department of Education trying to move students from Knocknagree National School to Doon National School - which closed its door 41 years ago and is now a dwelling house.

http://www.corkman.ie/news/dept-sends-kids-to-closed-school-2652183.html?start=2

[Griska]

Words fail.

[Ah Well]

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Across the road seems to be where the Department want the children transported to. This appears to be the Site of the old Doon School in Ummeraboy, Cork.

Ireland's first Hedge School in Centuries?

:D

[PaddyJoe]

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Across the road seems to be where the Department want the children transported to. This appears to be the Site of the old Doon School in Ummeraboy, Cork.

Ireland's first Hedge School in Centuries?

:D

Looks like the Department forgot to send out Appendix 902.4b from the EU/IMF Memorandum of Understanding concerning the move toward a more traditional amd resource aware educational framework;)

[Holly]

Civil service employees actually get paid for this and enjoy gold-plated pensions.

[Ah Well]

The saga continues ...

Deputy Áine Collins attended the meeting ....

Addressing the large audience she said: "The department has agreed to look very favourably on the matter. They are trying to ascertain the full facts at the moment ..."

http://www.corkman.ie/news/bizarre-pupils-told-to-attend-closed-school-2665993.html

Trying to ascertain the full facts - what a shower of prats. Solution => send someone with map reading skills or a GPS out to the location of the no longer existing school, see for themselves it doesn't exist, report back to base and hey bingo case solved

Unless of course they've no-one capable of doing/figuring out something like that

:rolleyes::D

[PaddyJoe]

The saga continues ...

Deputy Áine Collins attended the meeting ....

Addressing the large audience she said: "The department has agreed to look very favourably on the matter. They are trying to ascertain the full facts at the moment ..."

http://www.corkman.ie/news/bizarre-pupils-told-to-attend-closed-school-2665993.html

Trying to ascertain the full facts - what a shower of prats. Solution => send someone with map reading skills or a GPS out to the location of the no longer existing school, see for themselves it doesn't exist, report back to base and hey bingo case solved

Unless of course they've no-one capable of doing/figuring out something like that

:rolleyes::D



She added that she was to meet Minister Ciaran Cannon this week to discuss this matter further.
FG\s finest young minds are on the case:D