Enoch Burke is The Prisoner

Im talking about either a secondary or primary school , seems to be quite a few non religion secondary schools around . If the Catholic Church own the schools surely their entitled to have some form of a Catholic ethos in that school, most people where i live dont seem to have any issue with it.

If i was planning to be a teacher and didnt like Catholics id move to where there are Protestant or Non Religion schools or else dont bother teaching if its that big an issue for a person. My broher lives in Birmingham and his children go to a catholic school and never heard of teachers there not wanting to teach there. Maybe theres more protestant & Muslim schools in Birmingham than here for non catholics to teach in .

The demographics are changing quickly (less and less catholics) but the Church ownsmost of the schools still. Something has got to give eventually. Aged nuns and priests interviewing people who are pretending to be religious to get a job. The last time they were in a Church was probably their confirmation, if even.

It’s a charade

well buddy, you posted it to back up your point and it's clear that you're wrong. on many levels.

Because that’s what the school is established to do, so it stands to reason it would be expected that they do that.

Parents aren’t obligated to choose between one or the other, and the fact that there is a shortage of schools of their particular preference is the responsibility of Government, not the Patrons of any particular organisation which provides education, and certainly not the responsibility of other parents.

There are very, very few members of the clergy involved in Boards of Management. They are a dying breed.

I don't suppose you have any source for your claim that what I experienced is not generally applicable even to primary schools?

Would I lie to you Andrew? 😁

I don’t, and I don’t see what that has to do with anything either when your claim amounts to the notion that religious ethos schools engage in unlawful discrimination as standard practice. That anyone feels they have to lie is not the same thing as the idea that an employer requires anyone to lie, about anything.

The idea that candidates are required to adhere to their employer’s policies is not a new concept either, it’s just one that Enoch appears to have imagined didn’t apply to him, pretty much the same as the interviewees for that article you provided who felt they had to lie - they are not required by their employer to do so, and they are not prohibited from being considered for employment or promotion on the basis of their religious beliefs or lack thereof, because in spite of what you’ve been led to believe about the other 3,000 religious ethos schools in Ireland to which your claim applies, assessing candidates based on their religious beliefs is not standard practice.

It’s easy for most people at least, to keep their private thoughts to themselves. ‘Relatively easy’ according to one atheist who was Principal of a Catholic school for 20 years. Came a cropper when he decided to express his private thoughts in public, as though there shouldn’t be any consequences for his behaviour from his employer:

To date, the divesting rate is negligible. I wrote about this last year, and a few days later I received an email from the diocese of Cloyne informing me that I was no longer on the panel of independent assessors for interview selection boards.

When I enquired as to why, I was informed that my “public stance on church/school matters is not compatible with you sitting on selection boards for the appointment of teachers in schools under Catholic patronage”.

Rather than engage with any points raised in my writing, the bishop exercised his right to shoot the naysayer.

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