Religion and Engaging with the Teacher

You can believe in things that have nothing to do with religion. I believe Ireland won't win the next world cup. I've no proof. They may actually win.

An absence of something actually an identifiable thing.

That said I don't think there should be religious education in state funded schools.

I just don't understand how someone hasn't planned for this before a kids starts school. They've known for a least 4~5yrs its going to an issue. I assume you'd know long before that as well, discussed it with a partner etc.

If some said you know what. I'm going to demand my rights, not to have religious education on the local school. I'm going to meet that battle head on. I say fair play. I support that 100%. What I don't get is just sleep walking into it, saying I've no choice.

Grow a set and tell the school straight out.

Or else suck it up like they’ve done for the past year or two.

Recognize a catch 22 when you see one.

I get why you're so fanatical./hardline about it. I just think its a little unrealistic.

You might be interested in this thread... https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058215428/why-are-there-so-few-state-owned-state-run-schools-in-ireland#latest

Yet other people managed to fill those spaces. How did everyone else get in?

Making excuses and hyperbole isn't getting going to get anyone anywhere.

Well those admission policies at least you could plan around.

But those policies are seen unfair as it bias towards long term locals. It creates a school population that doesn't mirror recent population changes. So policies recently have been changed to not favour long term residents.

So now its a lottery regardless of how long you've been an area, often you can only apply in the year before the child attends school. So someone from Cork who moves to say Dublin school a year before schools starts has exactly the same chance as someone who has lived their for 50yrs. its mostly based on the child age and their current permanent location.

The downside is there no incentive to be resident in a area, once you get a place. Also locals can't get a place. So you get a lot of kids being ferried all over the place and the school and its community becomes disconnected from the locality in which its located.

But that's what society wanted. That's what it got. The social media generation, wants immediate gratification, or in this case change.

Arguing dishonestly or honestly is mutually exclusive to being right or wrong.

Flat earthers can argue honestly and round pro-vaxers can argue dishonestly.

Where is there a state education with zero exposure to religion.

Still a choice.

You're replacing a constitutional right to education with the illusion of a choice.

Would you tell someone they could go away and choose another hospital if they didn't want the prayer before surgery?... Oh but they should have chosen to live near another hospital before they became sick.

If we go back to the OP question. How can the faith school facilitate someone who wants to attend the faith school, but have zero contact with religion in that school, while not being treated differently from all the other kids.

That's has to be a catch 22. You can't be treated the same and differently, both at the same time. So how practically is that to be achieved. What is acceptable. Perhaps if posted what worked for them this would a more productive thread.