The idea's being trialed in Wales, where schools with students who were "particularly disadvantaged by Covid" will spend an extra hour in the classroom every day for 10 weeks.
Editor of the Education Matters Yearbook, Brian Mooney, says it's unlikely teachers here would welcome a similar initiative:
"Who in the end of the day are going to staff these? I mean, you have, teachers have contracts of employment. We've had years of years of debate about the additional areas were brought in under Croke Park, etc. You know, during the after the economic collapse and the extra 23 hours that were added and you know, they've been removed in many sectors of the economy."
