A chara – I agree with much of what David Graham writes about the recent school ethos survey announced recently (Letters, October 4th).
The survey is another exercise in “kicking the can down the road”. Mr Graham suggests that “we need to have an adult conversation about the continued role of religion in our schools”.
That conversation should not be just about religion.
It should focus on the outdated concept of school patronage and the continued abrogation by the State of its obligations in regard to the provision and governance of education.
An Irish businessman in Singapore: ‘You’ll get a year in jail if you are in a drunken brawl, so people don’t step out of line’
Protestants in Ireland: ‘We’ve gone after the young generations. We’ve listened and changed how we do things’
Is this the final chapter for Books at One as Dublin and Cork shops close?
In Dallas, X marks the mundane spot that became an inflection point of US history
The policy of replacing one dominant patron with a multitude of untested ones is not the solution.
Patron bodies are self-selected and unelected and by their very nature have their own self-serving agendas.
In the spirit of the Stanley letter of 1831, let’s just renationalise our schools. – Yours, etc,
SEÁN Ó DÍOMASAIGH,
Dunsany,
Co Meath.