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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013
EDITION NO. 34,874
Serving Cork for 120 years Eggs-tra special fun at Fota as kids enjoy Easter trail
Harry McDwyer, Elia Deriu, Ciara Allister and Jasper Deriu, all from Cobh, enjoying the Fota House annual Easter Egg Trail yesterday. See page seven for more. Picture: Jim Coughlan
INTO president: Too much pressure on teachers as...
Government is passing bullying buck THE Cork-based president of the country’s largest teachers’ union has said the Government is putting too much pressure on schools to solve the nation’s bullying crisis and is ‘passing the buck’.
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Anne Faye, who is the outgoing president of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO), was due to give the opening address at the annual congress of the teachers’ union in the SilverSprings Moran Hotel in Cork tonight. More than 850 delegates representing 32,000 primary teachers in the Republic and 6,000 primary teachers in the North are due to attend
By MARIA ROLSTON
the three-day conference. Speaking to the Evening Echo ahead of the conference, Ms Faye said that schools were highly committed to dealing with the scourge of bullying. However, she added that the responsibility should not be left with schools alone to deal with what was essentially ‘a social problem’. “Schools are positively and proactively dealing with bullying on a day-to-day basis, but I feel that the Government is passing the buck. ● Continued on page two.
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