[the truth]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I'm sure you did read that about privately run Catholic schools but that's not what I'm talking about here, I'm talking about state schools in Ireland which are pretty much all Catholic run. They shouldn't be, state schools should not be run by the church, I don't detest Catholic run schools but I would have preferred to send my children to a school that doesn't teach Catholicism as fact...........which is what happens in these schools. People can choose to send their children to religious schools if they like, that's their prerogative, I didn't want to but I had no choice unless I took my kids out of our area and travelled a long way to and from home every day with them which wasn't doable for me and wouldn't have been fair on them

If I felt as strongly as you seem to do about how awful catholic schools are I would leave to an area which provides a school with no religious element. though personally I think the religious element is in many ways a good thing and this is illustrated by the fact catholic schools usually outperform other schools