{"id":369,"date":"2012-02-15T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/schools-being-frozen-out-of-deis-school-system\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T23:14:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:14:46","slug":"schools-being-frozen-out-of-deis-school-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/schools-being-frozen-out-of-deis-school-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools being frozen out of DEIS school system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Schools being frozen out of DEIS school system<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe has described as  \u201cunacceptable\u201d a response from the Department of Education and Skills to  a question he submitted on the designation of DEIS school status.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe had questioned the criteria that was applied to St  Mary\u2019s National School in Tallaght which despite servicing an area of  high social disadvantage was not designated to be part of the DEIS  system.<\/p>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools like St Mary\u2019s National School are in the frontline when it  comes to meeting the educational needs of children from disadvantaged  areas. Apart from the social and economic challenges that affect the  lives of children from that part of Tallaght, there are also additional  factors to consider such as the large migrant and traveller population  who live within the catchment area of St Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these children deserve help and educational support so they  are able to achieve their full potential at school. Ironically, in the  case of St Mary\u2019s, the reverse is happening and last week I attended a  packed public meeting of people who are angry and concerned that the  school is set to lose five members of its teaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department\u2019s confirmation that schools like St Mary\u2019s have been  frozen out of the DEIS system, fails to take into consideration factors  such as shifting demographics and the impact of the recession on  communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to a question I posed on why St Mary\u2019s is not a  designated DEIS school, I was informed that the current economic climate  and the challenge to meet the significant targets on reducing public  expenditure limits opportunities and means that there is no capacity to  provide for additionally to the DEIS programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this means in simple language, is that despite the great  success of DEIS schools in addressing educational underachievement,  schools that are clearly disadvantaged have no way of becoming part of  the DEIS scheme. The outcome of this is that children who need  additional help in order to fulfil their life chances will be denied the  extra support that can help them achieve this goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet again it is some of the most vulnerable children who are suffering the most from grossly unfair austerity measures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools being frozen out of DEIS school system Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe has described as \u201cunacceptable\u201d a response from the Department of Education and Skills to a question he submitted on the designation of DEIS school status. Deputy Crowe had questioned the criteria that was applied to St Mary\u2019s National School in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}