Support the Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016
The Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016 will be debated in the Dail next Tuesday night between 8pm and 10pm. If passed this Bill would ensure that all children and their parents have access to an education system with equal respect and dignity and where their human rights are guaranteed. ...
Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan does not have a photographic memory of atheists
Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan said yesterday that she was particularly motivated to protect LGBT teachers from discrimination, when some LGBT teachers were afraid to have their photographs taken with the President for fear that action would be taken against them in their schools. But last February, at a meeting with ...
Labour Party forgets its pledge to protect atheist teachers
The Labour Party seems to have forgotten the pledge in the Programme for Government to protect non-faith and minority faith teachers along with publicly out LGBT teachers, despite the Labour Party claiming political ownership of that particular Government commitment. A Labour Party press release today is now selectively recasting it ...
Religious Discrimination in Primary & Secondary Schools – tell your TDs to end it now
In response to requests from a number of parents on what they can do when they encounter religious discrimination in primary & secondary schools we offer the following letter that you can use as a basis for your own letter to your local TDs, Ministers, Senators, Euro MPs and others. Your ...
Ruairi Quinn refuses to implement UN Recommendations on the rights of the child.
Yesterday the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn published a draft Admission to Schools bill to regulate the admission of children to primary and post primary schools. While the proposed measures in the bill are to be welcomed the Minister has done nothing about removing religious discrimination in access to education. ...