Teacher turned up for work to learn she was losing job

A TEACHER has told of the outrage she felt when she turned up for school the morning after Finance Minister Michael Noonan delivered the budget to learn her job was to be axed with immediate effect.

Mary Moore said she was stunned when the principal told her the modern languages in primary schools initiative was being scrapped and that the decision to abolish 300 teacher posts was afforded just one sentence in the budget address.

“I hadn’t heard about it until I got to school the morning after and I was asked by the principal how I felt about the bad news. I didn’t know what he meant. I was in total shock,” said Ms Moore, who teaches Spanish on a part-time basis at seven primary schools in Co Kerry.