Diary of an Irish Teacher: Do we need to slow things down and stop the scramble in our schools?

"I feel there is a need for a greater understanding of the role of 'ordinary' people in shaping history for the better in everyday, 'ordinary' ways," says a colleague of Jennifer Horgan's

Jennifer Horgan. Pic: Larry Cummins

My mornings involve trawling through odd socks to find a pair. Or the closest thing to a pair.

Our odd socks are kept in what my children call a ‘sock mansion,’ an ever-growing plastic box on top of the freezer. Perfect pairs are up in their bedrooms of course, but by the time we’re making the final scramble out of the house, we’ve no time to get them.