Jennifer Horgan: Please listen to teachers and recognise their worth

My message to the next Dáil: Jennifer Horgan writes that something is desperately wrong with how Ireland treats its most vulnerable children

Over 250,000 primary school children are in overcrowded classes of 25 or more, with 50,000 in classes exceeding 30. File picture

Future leaders, please listen to teachers and recognise their worth — not only in words, not only in your defence against attacks by people like Michael O’Leary, but in your deeds.

Listen to them. What are they telling you? They are telling you — and have been telling you for some time — that our most vulnerable children are suffering, and you are not acting.