Warning of ‘chaos’ over substitute teachers
The Government is suspending substitution cover for teachers who bring students on field trips, to plays, other curricular events or to sports and extra-curricular activities from January.
In a letter to the minister, responding to his suggestion last week that teachers should provide unpaid supervision when colleagues are absent on such school business, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) said he was essentially asking teachers to work for nothing for part of the week.
