Letters to the Editor: Career breaks for teachers? You couldn’t make it up

Minister for Education Norma Foley. A proactive measure to help with the current shortage of teachers might be an outright ban on teachers becoming public representatives, writes one correspondent.

The irony of ironies a minister for education who is on a career break from teaching considers scrapping career breaks for teachers. You couldn’t make it up!

Norma Foley must be fairly confident of her political future in Fianna Fáil. There are many valid further professional development, personal, health and family reasons why a teacher might avail of a career break. Rarely is it taken lightly.