Enoch Burke turns up to school again despite sacking - read OP before posting

Enoch Burke in not a martyr. He is being asked to go through the recognised processed with regard to his suspension and stay away from school while this is being sorted. He refuses. Court ordered was not to attend school premises. He refuse. Was 8mprisomed for contempt of court.

And Enoch behaved unacceptably, he doesn't get to shout at the principal if he's annoyed by something. He follows procedures as does the rest of the world. He did the performance cause he wanted to maximize public attention…

On that basis, one could respectfully argue that if EB had been a classical Protestant Christian and not An Evangelist Christian, while employed at WHS, he would not have come into conflict with the school board and would not have been sacked.

Their methodology is to stalk schools, waste court time and harass politicians out doing their shopping.

That's before we get into misappropriation of student union funds and setting up homophobic websites to attack gay politicians.

Do you think this methodology should be applauded ?

The journalist is trying to compare them to Nell McCafferty is plain and simple trolling and isn't half as smart as she thinks it is.

And wider society does have the determination to do good. Which is why a school stood up for a trans kid and the law stood up to a school against a bully like Enoch.

I assume that little dig about not reading it is aimed at me?

It was interesting to note some of the words used in her praise. Nell was “difficult”, “fierce”, “argumentative”, “outspoken”, “fearless”, a “fighter”, “pushing against the grain”. She had, declared President Michael D Higgins, “a conscience that refuses to be silenced”.

Well, for the record, I couldn't stand Nell McCafferty and her particular style of "determination" either.

Lets go through this again, the school made a decision, enoch disagreed with that decision but instead of using the proper channels to express that disagreement he accosted his boss and was thus dismissed. You seem to be claiming it is somehow a childs fault for how enoch, a supposed adult and trained teacher, chose to react to the schools decision?

Do you believe the child made him accost his boss? Because that is where the issue is and it has nothing to do with anything else you seem to be claiming, it is solely around how enoch reacted to something he disagreed with and has nothing to do with the thing he disagrees with.

No because the issue and why he was let go is not because of the decision but how enoch reacted to it. Trying to blame a child for the behavior of a grown adult is really quite pathetic and also a bit disturbing, do you also blame children who get raped by adults?

EB was working there since 2018.

The student that made EB kick off wasn't the first non-binary student at WHS. A previous student made a request to be addressed by a different name / pronouns to the then principal back in December 2021 - a full six 6 months earlier. Yet no one can explain why EB didn't kick off then. (Maybe he didn't tell his Mammy about them).

"The school made a decision. Enoch disagreed with that decision."

Correct. However if the child wasn't a pupil then the school wouldn't have needed to make a decision. So there would have been nothing for Enoch to disagree with. And all this fuss could have been avoided.

Alternatively the school could have decided to take the opposite decision and refused to agree to the child's request - Enoch would have agreed with this approach and there would have been no outburst from him.

The school couldn't refuse the student's request. The student has the legal right to self-identify and the school is obliged to comply with the Equal Status Acts that allows the everyone that right.