'Eila starts at 9am and is out again at midday, while Erin, in first class, is in from 8.35am to 2.15pm and this will continue for another week - I admit I should have taken annual leave to accommodate the mayhem'
I finally got to go to my happy place, the gym, and in typical fashion I was late for the class.
The gym manager saw me and hauled me into his office. I felt like a teenage rebel summoned to see the principal.Mortified, I apologised profusely telling him it was a "crazed moment".The vast majority of primary schools in Ireland do not favour the working parent, they favour those who don't work. We've spent the summer months shipping our brood to camps so we can work, and we're even worse off now that they're back to school.
A friend's son who is in a Deis school has a homework club until 4pm and a breakfast club from 8am, all free of charge. In the rest of the schools across middle Ireland there are no after-school supports, not even the paying kind.
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