asked the Minister for Education if he will state whether he is aware that one of the two additional teachers recently appointed to the Scoil Mhuire, Marlborough Street, Dublin, has been taken away, and that consequently the work of the seventh and eighth standards in the school is being seriously prejudiced, and the teaching of cooking in the lower standards is not being proceeded with, and if he will state for what reason the teacher has been taken away, and whether he will at once cause a teacher to be appointed in her place, so that the standard of work for the school during the year shall not fall below the standard intended.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Staffing of Dublin School.
One of the recognised assistant teachers in this school resigned to take up a position in one of the preparatory colleges towards the close of September.
There are at present nine teachers on the staff—a principal teacher and eight assistants. There are two members of the staff in charge of the fourth standard and one member of the staff in charge of each of the remaining standards.
I am advised that the position as regards instruction in cookery is better than in the previous year (there are now three cookery classes—last year there were only two) and that the work of the seventh and eighth standards is not being seriously prejudiced.
Is the proposal to appoint a teacher to replace the teacher who has resigned?
Is not that a separate question, a Chinn Comhairle?
Will the Minister take into consideration that, in spite of the important work done by this school, the staff are drawn on from time to time to lend a teacher to other schools in the country for the purpose of starting additional schools of this particular kind; and will he take into consideration that it is unreasonable to leave a school of this kind, unnecessarily, without a teacher that the educational authorities consider it should have?
The Deputy knows, or ought to know, that it is customary in making appointments of this kind to advertise; that it takes a certain amount of time for advertisements to appear and for the teachers appointed to get themselves free from the positions which they occupy at the moment.