Hard lesson for school visitor

NOW that newspapers bring out league tables on exam results and what are considered the ‘best’ second-level schools in the country, maybe they should accompany them with league tables of the physical condition of the schools in which staff and students alike are expected to perform.

I recently visited a friend who teaches in what would be considered a good school in Co Meath and was quite appalled by the working conditions for teachers there.

There were just two toilets, with no windows, for a large female staff and one had no light in it.