They haven’t a clue.
You may recall a post on Ballinteer Educate Together (multi-denominational) school whose pupils have been housed in temporary accomodation since 2012…
Dudley Colley writes:
Sadly, not only is there no tangible progress, but we are being temporarily rehoused in another campus in Churchtown with two other schools, so it’s gone from bad to worse. We found out about this move from a tweet….
We’re having a protest at the Dáil at 1pm tomorrow, all welcome. In the measntime enjoy an irresistible video of our munchkins (above)…..
Previously: Educate Ridiculously Close Together
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Was the access issue as outlined in last year’s post ever dealt with?
Hi Peter. Unfortunately, nothing has been dealt with at all. It’s maddening.
This is a terrible state of affairs, alright. Educate Together schools are multi denominational, not non denominational. An important nuance.
I’ll sec that, actually. I attended a ‘non-denominational’ VEC secondary school.
There was morning prayer, every morning. Which seems to me to be rather a contradiction.
It’s not a nuance at all. The provision of non-denominational schools is central to the provision of secular education (which the Irish state is obliged to provide under several human rights related commitments it’s made to the UN). Multi-denominational schools (like Educate Together) are better than faith-based schools but only just. Ireland doesn’t have any non-denominational schools.
I don’t really understand why everyone got so exercised (rightly) over the nuns ownership of the NMH but most are happy enough to let them control education.