The ministers reply states that parents can apply for a place in any school yet in the second paragraph he alludes to the vile Equal Status act which allows the 97% of religiously run schools to reject any child on the basis of religion.
He assumes that all schools must be denominational or multi-denominational when surely the simplist way of ensuring that nobodies beliefs are offended is to decouple our education system.
The ministers empty promise to build 400 multi-demominational schools by 2030 is, to me like apartheid South Africa placing more 'Blacks Only' benches in the park. Segregation & discrimination in all forms is utterly wrong and the state should block all funding to any organisation that practices such backward policies.
The submissions to this Dail debate appear to reflect the majority opinion that the era of religious bigotry is over and yet, most deputies are still pussy footing about trying to accommodate outdated sectarian policies.
Have a little courage and take control of our tax payer funded schools. If the churches want to operate their own schools let them pay for them while the rest of us move on.
Andrew Sullivan
Posted on 12 Jul 2016 2:43 pm
The ministers reply states that parents can apply for a place in any school yet in the second paragraph he alludes to the vile Equal Status act which allows the 97% of religiously run schools to reject any child on the basis of religion.
He assumes that all schools must be denominational or multi-denominational when surely the simplist way of ensuring that nobodies beliefs are offended is to decouple our education system.
The ministers empty promise to build 400 multi-demominational schools by 2030 is, to me like apartheid South Africa placing more 'Blacks Only' benches in the park. Segregation & discrimination in all forms is utterly wrong and the state should block all funding to any organisation that practices such backward policies.
The submissions to this Dail debate appear to reflect the majority opinion that the era of religious bigotry is over and yet, most deputies are still pussy footing about trying to accommodate outdated sectarian policies.
Have a little courage and take control of our tax payer funded schools. If the churches want to operate their own schools let them pay for them while the rest of us move on.