Traveller family lose school admission case

[Clanrickard]

Comply or Die is it?

Hysteria much? Settle down and don't life a life-shortening, unhealthy, jobless nomadic lifestyle.

[greenjerseyman]

Great news. Let them live in a house like everyone else and quit trying to be an "ethnic minority" and behave themselves and it will do wonders for their discrimination.

They claim to be discriminated against unfairly but they're happy to live like animals(sorry, animals clean themselves) and behave like neanderthals. Makes me sick. If you want to use the benefits of society, then you should at least try adhere to the laws like the rest of us. And that doesn't just go for travellers but for the scum that drag their kids up with no morals and self-respect

[TimBuckII]

Hysteria much? Settle down and don't life a life-shortening, unhealthy, jobless nomadic lifestyle.

i suppose this could start with a decent opportunity at education.

[Clanrickard]

i suppose this could start with a decent opportunity at education.

Yes it could. But the school has an admissions policy and they used their elevated status to overturn it. This gets my goat. A "settled" family refused on the same basis has no such recourse.

[yellowfish]

It seems that the school said it was favoring pupils whose family had attended the school, in fairness to this traveler family every admission should be treated equally, if they are now living in the area and want their child to go to the local school then the child should have an equal chance of admission, this ruling is as bad as saying you have to belong to a certain sect.

Secondly how many people (including me) give out about some travelers and others not treating their child's education as a priority? It seems obvious that these parents are determined to have their child treated equally and receive an education. Good luck to them and I hope they succeed.

[tigerben]

Its not the schools fault that they have to put restrictions in place, during the boom years , the amount of primary and secondary schools that developers where meant to build , after getting premission for huge estates never materialise, nope because it seems here in Ireland instead of building the the shop, crèche, schools, community centres that were put in to the plans, they just built the houses and where left get away with out anything else or never chased up, here in Midleton , the secondary schools are at breaking point, so blame the government, the regulators and developers that never fulfilled their obligations.

[Clanrickard]

It seems that the school said it was favoring pupils whose family had attended the school, in fairness to this traveler family every admission should be treated equally, if they are now living in the area and want their child to go to the local school then the child should have an equal chance of admission, this ruling is as bad as saying you have to belong to a certain sect.

Secondly how many people (including me) give out about some travelers and others not treating their child's education as a priority? It seems obvious that these parents are determined to have their child treated equally and receive an education. Good luck to them and I hope they succeed.

So they should let everyone in? There has to be some way of deciding who gets in and who doesn't.

[yellowfish]

They claim to be discriminated against unfairly but they're happy to live like animals(sorry, animals clean themselves) and behave like neanderthals. Makes me sick. If you want to use the benefits of society, then you should at least try adhere to the laws like the rest of us. And that doesn't just go for travellers but for the scum that drag their kids up with no morals and self-respect

You have absolutaly no evidence that these people are like that, though you provide ample evidence of the sort of education you will provide to your own children, who is more likely to be a better parent, those fighting for their childs education or someone who can write what you have? (Hint its not you)

[Roy Feen]

From what I heard on the radio, two boys were admitted to the school ahead of the traveller kid because they were legacies whose fathers who had attended Christian Brothers. The legacy rule existed when I went to school and always had as far as I know. The travellers claimed it was indirect discrimination against travellers, the courts disagreed. The school is right to stick to its rules imo.

[sauntersplash]

It seems that the school said it was favoring pupils whose family had attended the school, in fairness to this traveler family every admission should be treated equally, if they are now living in the area and want their child to go to the local school then the child should have an equal chance of admission, this ruling is as bad as saying you have to belong to a certain sect.

Secondly how many people (including me) give out about some travelers and others not treating their child's education as a priority? It seems obvious that these parents are determined to have their child treated equally and receive an education. Good luck to them and I hope they succeed.

But what if they "travel" away, and the resources the school could have invested elsewhere are wasted?
Something tells me that the people involved are likely to live somewhere else within the next twelve years. I can't quite put my finger on what it is though.