Westmeath school gets temporary injunction banning a suspended teacher from it's premises

Doesn't answer my question: the ethos is what it is.

Question was: why did he take a job when he didn't agree with it?

Arrogantly dishing out insults does not nake you look smart. The ethos is not the issue. Burke is. He took the job.

So for the third tine, why did Burke take a job when he disagreed with the ethos?

And you can read mine:

See as you're unable to answer civilly and want to go round in circles, you go on you're own. My point is proven, we're done here.

Just a thought: Has Louis Theroux ever done a program about these bozos? They sound like just his sort of raw materiel

I don't think anyone specifically stated it, but I read quite a number wishing him ill in prison, or even laughing about what might happen to him there.

I don't agree with his religious views, but I found those comments poorly thought out.

It's funny how many people on this thread refuse to accept the fact of the religious nature of Irish education in general, and of this school in particular.

To me it is clear that Burke has a particular view of his protestantism and what it entails.

Unfortunately for him perhaps, the majority of CoI in this state (but maybe not in NI) are well-off and socially liberal (not leftwing though, that is something else!). So they want their schools to reflect this. But despite the majority of us in this state seeing protestantism as a sort of lassez-faire business, it has roots in something far different, and has a most illiberal side to it; this was even more so in the past. Burke would seem a sort of throwback to that strand of protestantism. Which probably has more adherents, even in this state, than the public face of the CoI would like to admit.

And despite the school's nice modern liberal policies, Burke can point to other aspects of the CoI which in his mind trump the school's stated policies - and he may have a stateable case in a court of law.

However this will not be open to him at this point in time, as his current problem is contempt of court.

A conspiracy theorist might wonder if he was carefully guided down that route in order to change the focus of the issue.

I quite like the use of the pronoun they for the singular. In fact it used to be quite common - until "he or she" replaced it.

If the school had simply stated that in the interests of inclusivity and simplicity it was reverting to the older use rather than introducing "he or she or they" it could have avoided the problem.

But then it would have upset the "he or she" brigade wouldn't it?