'At least if they’re on a career break, they may come back.”
“Teachers take career breaks for many reasons,” Mr Gillespie told“To experience work abroad, some return to do additional study - there’s lots of reasons.
“Also, at the moment, the workload and the pressure in schools are very high, so if they work abroad they’re being promised an awful lot when they go abroad. “They’re promised smaller classes, maybe more organised workloads, not a system under as much pressure as our system is under.”Mr Gillespie said a ban would simply mean teachers resigning instead of returning to the school at a later date.
“If we do that to a teacher - because of the recruitment and retention crisis; because they know they’re going to get a job anywhere in the world - they’ll resign,” he said.“That hasn’t happened before in Ireland. “So, we know they resigned [and] our own union knows from our own records that they resigned if they were refused a career break."We know the retention and recruitment crisis in teaching is going to get worse because of all the demographic issues.When taking a career break, teachers must take at least one year – and can extend that each year for up to five years.Education Minister Norma Foley is herself on a career break from the school she taught at prior to her election as a TD in 2020.
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