Irish Teacher: If a school makes an error in a child's assessment, will they be legally accountable?

Like Victor Frankenstein in the aftermath of his monster’s birth, the State is turning its back on schools

This week, schools were advised that it is now their job to assess a child’s needs.

I’m reading Frankenstein with my fifth years.

Mary Shelley’s masterpiece is both a part of the romantic tradition, and deeply critical of it. At 19, she had the intellectual elasticity and emotional intelligence to recognise the dangers of a heroic spirit obsessed with personal achievement, a spirit willing to degrade personal relationships and abandon care in order to succeed.