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Originally Posted by Niamh.

mmm I think it's something like 96%, which is crazy, it gives you very little options when you're sending your kids to school

We have a friend affected by this predicament over in ROI. She isn't religious and isn't raising her daughter Catholic, she went to Catholic school herself and hates everything about it, but there are very few options for her. All of the local schools are Catholic run (within a radius of dozens of miles) and the only other option is home-schooling, which would be financially impossible.

I would feel horribly trapped in that situation. There's no way I'd send my kids into a religious education system, but home schooling wouldn't be logistically feasible... No idea how I'd get around it, actually.