Educate Together Launch Study - Wednesday 23rd

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There's an open event event, tomorrow evening in Trinity College at which they're releasing a study into demand for a secondary-level non-denominational Educate Together school in Dublin. Here's the flyer:



If you want to go along, just ring or email the organizers to let them know. The Atrium is in through the main entrance from College Green, then straight on for around 100 yards, until you see a wheelchair ramp on the left, and down that and through a door next to an ATM.

METLobbyist

Educate Together Second Level Project
Lobbying Our 166 T.D.'s on Behalf of Educate Together Secound Level Project


Hello All
I have been lobbying our 166 T.D.’s to put pressure on Batt O’Keeffe to give Educate Together the go ahead to start opening Second Level schools. At this time I have received 17 responses to my e-mail, most of them have made a written representation to the Minister on my behalf. Olivia Mitchell has promised to bring it up with Batt O’Keeffe in September during Parliamentary Question time. I found all the e-mail addresses on Google, just search for e-mail addresses T.D. 30th Dail and a Doc file should come up. You can down load a standard letter from www.educatetogether.ie in the second level project tab or copy and paste it from this blog. Please support this campaign it only takes five minutes to send an e-mail to your local T.D. Thanks for your Help.

Dear Deputy
When the first Educate Together primary school opened in South Dublin thirty years ago, it was as a result of a prolonged campaign by pioneering parents determined to exercise their constitutional and human right to choose a multi-denominational, democratic ethos for their children’s education. As you know, there are now 44 Educate Together primary schools established, with 12 more to open in September 2008.
Since the right to choice in education does not cease when children reach the age of twelve, pressure has been mounting on Educate Together to expand its successful model into the post-primary sphere ever since, and the organisation is now ready to extend the positive contribution it is making to the second-level sector.
Educate Together’s equality-based, innovative, learner-centred educational approach, (which my child benefits from in Midleton Educate Together national school) is ideally suited to preparing young people to live in 21st century Ireland (and I want my child(ren) to continue within this ethos at second-level).
In December 2007 Educate Together applied to the Minister for Education and Science to be registered as a patron of second-level schools, based on its outstanding track record at primary level. I ask for your support in lobbying the Minister to confirm this registration as a matter of urgency so that Educate Together can proceed to work with families (like mine) at local level to provide for the type of modern, holistic, multi-denominational, education (we/they) want.
I therefore ask you to contact the Minister for Education and Science directly on my behalf to ask him to confirm this registration without further delay.
Many thanks,
Kevin J, Lucey
www.midletonet.com
metlobbyist@gmail.com
www.educatetogether.ie