D/Education survey - no secular choice given to parents.

D/Education has embarked on a much publicised survey of parents on what type of primary school they would prefer. At the moment, Ireland has the following categories of schools:

1. Catholic

2. Other religions (various Protestant faiths, Jewish and Muslim).

3. Multi-denominatiion e.g. Educate Together.

4. Secular/non-denomination e.g. ETB and other State run schools.

Yet the school survey only gives options 1 & 3 above.

I would think that in this day and age there is a demand for normal secular State run schools - as is normal in most EU countries. This is the direction the State should be going in.

Also, I dont agree with religion in schools, but for those who do, the survey is discriminatory - religions other than Catholic cannot be chosen.

I also think the survey will (deliberately?) over count the number of people seeking Catholic schools as some non catholic religious people prefer them over other types of schools as catholic schools tend to be single sex.