Schools ‘selective in enrolment of troublesome pupils’

SOME schools are adopting selective enrolment policies to allow them dump troublesome students on public sector schools, a teachers’ leader has claimed.

Declan Glynn, assistant general secretary of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI), said this was adding to the stress-related illnesses being suffered by staff of vocational schools and other members of the union.

“The nature of our school system is such that public sector schools are invariably dumped with more problem students than other types of schools because of selective enrolment procedures,” he said. “Correspondingly, this is more of an issue for TUI second level teachers, all of whom work in public sector schools.”