Mountain of paperwork ‘affecting quality of second-level education’

THE quality of education being provided to second-level students is being affected by the increasing mountain of paperwork faced by their principals, a conference heard last night.

Michael Parsons, president of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), said the avalanche of administrative and bureaucratic work is totally out of order.

“I fear for my colleagues in a system that has only recently become extremely legalistic. Part of the problem may have been an identification of school as the place where all society’s ills can be cured,” he said.