# Teachers
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Voices
'As a gay teacher I felt I had to switch my partner from a 'he' to a 'she', I felt ashamed'
Niall Callan
6 Dec 2015
1.7k
151
Section 37
Dáil passes Bill to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT teachers
2 Dec 2015
21.4k
288
Voices
'I'm a teacher and while the school system isn't deliberately out to destroy people, it is broken'
Lisa Buggy
23 Nov 2015
3.1k
63
Voices
Schools getting zero direction on how to teach kids through technology
Fergal McCarthy
12 Nov 2015
289
36
standards
Something strange happens to the quality of teachers during recessions
10 Aug 2015
24.4k
21
Voices
We're getting children excited about outer space at an earlier age
Carla Hayes
19 Jul 2015
1.0k
11
Courts
Teacher says her career was "destroyed" after phone in her bra set off prison detectors
17 Jun 2015
74.7k
Equality
It's still legal to discriminate against gay teachers, but that could change next week
12 Jun 2015
9.1k
97
Hunger
A huge number of Irish adults are worried about not having enough money to buy food
18 May 2015
13.7k
69
marriage referendum
These teachers worry that a Yes vote could mean teaching 4-year-olds about the word 'gay'
14 May 2015
53.7k
541
Stalemate
Teachers to protest outside school gates today against Junior Cert reforms
7 May 2015
9.1k
88
Out in the Cold
Students protest after 16 English language colleges close in just one year
5 May 2015
15.7k
41
Conflict of Interest
DrinkAware wants to educate young people about drinking but it's facing criticism
12 Apr 2015
8.4k
20
the divide
City kids are worse at reading (and their maths skills don't quite add up either)
9 Apr 2015
12.3k
23
suicide crisis
Teachers are being trained to spot the 'warning signs' of suicide
7 Apr 2015
13.2k
25
school of hard knocks
Young teachers are facing an 'increasingly bleak reality'
6 Apr 2015
33.7k
120
junior cycle row
"I'm not talking about discipline": Minister won't say whether teachers will be punished
28 Feb 2015
11.9k
61
Voices
Opinion: Can we really trust that Junior Cycle reform isn't linked to the austerity agenda?
Geraldine Mooney Simmie
29 Jan 2015
479
56
placards at dawn
"It's not a holiday for us ... it will actually cause more work"
22 Jan 2015
20.5k
38
Background Checks
Garda vetting of 36,000 teachers will wait until after new laws are brought in
21 Jan 2015
9.5k
9