Private School Funding

Fuinseog wrote: »

it said on the news today that Kylemore got 200K from the government so that it could fund its boarding school again. the place gets at least half a million visitors every year and fleeces the tourists yet still have their hand out.

Ireland education budget is about 8 billion per year and there is aproxamitly 3000 primary schools.

Are you debating the amount paid to each school or that too much is paid to one school.

People who pay for private schools are not so much paying for the teachers but the facilities. Believe me, teachers in private schools are not beter than those in public.

Fuinseog wrote: »

i disgaree with the state giving this particular private secondary school any money when it charges fees and makes millions from its garden and restaurant, which is visited by nearly every tourist that comes to this country. I believe there are other schools more deserving.

So what you are saying is that the state should pick which schools they give funds to as paid by the tax payer.

Remember every school has a right to the structures of the welfare state. Because if you go down the other routes there is no point paying taxes as the government is then picking who should get a redistribution of the wealth and who should not.

Is you point that this named school gets more from the government than others or that this school should be cut out of the system. If this is the case can these school potentially form there own education system.