Published: April 10, 2019
Catholic schools in Dublin are circulating misinformation about what divestment will mean. How are parents to make an informed decision?
In Ireland, 90% of primary schools are Catholic. This religious domination of public education is anomalous in a developed nation. It does not meet the needs of Ireland’s increasingly diverse population, or of the many citizens – religious or otherwise – who would rather that Catholicism was not afforded a privileged place in public life.
In 2012, a government report recognised the need for change and recommended that some schools divest their religious patronage. Progress has been slow. Though the church agrees that some divestment is necessary, at local level it is reluctant to cede power.
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Z5r7xc
via
0 Comments