Muinteoir26

Teacher supporting inclusive education - Where have all the multi-denominational Gaelscoils gone? 🙌🏻

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@BTriagain @RTEUpfront It's already going that direction with Naíonra/Irish now required as part of a masters degree in Education. I think some people will refuse to see progress no matter what. Thankfully, I have a lot of positive gaeilgeoirí around me in the morning! #daltaínagaeilge

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@WhereWeAreNow1 @RTEUpfront Agreed 🙌

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@BTriagain @RTEUpfront Smaoineamh iontach!! 😂😂😂

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@joseph_lennon @RTEUpfront Glad to see someone with the same opinion. This is such a worn out complaint that doesn't make sense when you tease it out. Too many people are basing today's teaching of Irish on what they recall from their days in school back in the 60s, 70s or 80s. #RTEUpfront

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@mrocathail ....other subject areas, it just seems that people choose to latch on to the Irish as a way of diminishing/demonizing it because it doesn't hand them a job on a silver platter at the end. My pupils have such a grá for it. We are not teaching in the same way these days

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@mrocathail Honestly, and I speak for my generation (born in the 80s), I have had the best experience with the language throughout my life, so much so that I teach in a Gaelscoil in Dublin myself now. I agree that in the past (60s-80s), the teaching may have been dire but also true of....

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@alxwlsdn @philipnolan1 What a ridiculous comment.

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@alxwlsdn @philipnolan1 Can I ask if you have any exposure to the language yourself? It never ceases to surprise me that the majority of those complaining/advocating for Irish to be made optional are not actually bothered to even try to speak it? Have you attended a pop-up gaeltacht? Online class?

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@TConlonthecouch What kind of comment is this? Could say the same and call you the 'anti-irish brigade' but that would be bringing myself down to your level. Can't you have a meaningful discussion on the inevitability of losing our language? Or are you the type to wait until it's gone & then cry?

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@FCTurboWagon How it WAS taught. I had a wonderful experience in a gaelscoil/meanscoil circa. 1990 but agreed, before that was a different story. Now a teacher in a gaelscoil and you wouldn't believe the amount of language being spoken/the grá the children have for it. #RTEUpfront

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@clomoney @philipnolan1 Again, this was decades ago. The progress is being made in the schools since then. Maybe you don't see it if you're not around it? (i.e. with kids in a gaelscoil). We can't keep harping back to these days as if it's still that way now.. it does no-one any good

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@RTEUpfront This is a tired opinion. Surely we, a country who fought for our independance 100 years ago, can understand the importance of reviving our national language which was for so long forbidden to be used? Just because you don't love it, doesn't mean the country should give it up?

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@RTEUpfront @juleser1 Chomh maith le sin, @juleser1 👌 maith thú!

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@RTEUpfront @juleser1 As a teacher in a Gaelscoil, I am getting tired of the 'get rid of it' opinions (based on their own experiences back in the 80s/90s at school). Irish has moved on & it is growing. As the panel said, if maths was the issue we wouldn't make it optional - we would better support it

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@philipnolan1 Not sure whether this post is pro-Gaeilge or anti. Might be too late in the evening 😁 but hope you're not for scrapping the language. We can't so anything when its gone? #RTEUpfront

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@MonicaLewinsky Happy birthday! ❤️💕🥳

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@digital_soc @stevethewall Some have mentioned insane insurance costs as an issue as to why the tickets are more expensive here. Wouldn’t be surprised.

[Muinteoir26 @Muinteoir26]

@Rachel2Kinsella Got two seated tickets. Have you tried the other nights again just in case?

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@alex_collinsxx Someone said it could be linked to the time you registered at but not sure…

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@llewellynaine Sorry 😢