Will the great educational talking shop result in a plan or just more homework?

Every challenge we face comes from a lack of investment. When is the Government going to act on that?

School staff delivering their message at the SNA protest in Portlaoise on February 25. File picture

The upcoming National Convention on Education — the first of its kind since 1993 — is a moment of profound, if fragile, potential. It is being sold to us as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to reshape the Irish classroom. Yet, as delegates prepare to meet later this month, a shadow of scepticism looms large over the school gates.

After decades of departmental silence, this sudden urge for a national conversation feels less like a proactive vision and more like a tactical distraction from a system currently in freefall.