Principal: They are playing with the future of children’s education
As Rahan National School finished classes for summer, the teaching principal was still trying to assess the implications. He will now have 6.8 hours a week instead of the six hours he would have been limited to under the cuts reversed by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn on Tuesday.
The difficulty is that, instead of the two children those hours were used to give specialist teaching during the past year, the school must spread those 6.8 hours among four children. Two new pupils have moved into the area, a few miles from Mallow in north Cork, but their resource teaching allocation will not move automatically with them.
