Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Primary Schools - City East

Options
2»

Comments

  • Options
    #32
    unJustMary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭unJustMary


    kraggy wrote: »
    Since when?

    Edit: Just found the article that I was sure I had read last year.

    Confirms that they (Colaist na Coiribe) are booked out for enrollment til 2017.

    http://www.galwaynews.ie/10258-school-closes-applicants-until-2017

    http://www.equality.ie/index.asp?locID=77&docID=49 tells you all about what you're not allowed to discriminate on. In short:
    • Gender
    • Marital status
    • Family status
    • Sexual orientation
    • Religion
    • Age
    • Disability
    • Race (race, skin colour, nationality or ethnic origin)
    • Membership of the Traveller community
    and even for these, there are various exceptions.

    It's perfectly legal to discriminate on other things. Eg physical characteristics (so long as they're not caused by disability) like eye colour, height, weight, attractiveness, fatness, etc. Or address. Or ability at things like music, sport, study, manual dexterity, typing, speaking languages, etc.

    As to the press release ... sure it's a press release. They want the community in general to think certain things. This doesn't stop them giving a "more targeted" message to certain groups.


  • Options
    #33
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    unJustMary wrote: »
    As to the press release ... sure it's a press release. They want the community in general to think certain things. This doesn't stop them giving a "more targeted" message to certain groups.

    Of course. But despite the fact that they are booked out they still accept applications for places that do not exist by their own admission. . I mean in 2010 2011 and 2012 ...not further out when they think they will have a new school. They should have accepted that site in Newcastle back in the 1990s which was before Doughiska and Roscam were built and a glaring lack of secondary schools in the East of the City became evident.

    The only condition for acceptance of an application form is that you must come from the right areas and the right areas are all to the west of the Corrib not to the east.

    And yet the lack of school places east of the Corrib is quite shocking and most particularly out the Tuam Road where Coláiste na Coiribe is located.

    Calasanctius in Oranmore is restricting its intake to kids who attended primary school the parishes of Oranmore and Clarinbridge from now on ( = siblings from outside) and Claregalway school kids are no longer guaranteed a place in Calasanctius...never mind Doughiska or Roscam kids who never were.

    Oranmore and Clarinbridge between them have about 100 kids aged 10 or so resident and the numbers are trending up.

    Calasanctius accepts 150 a year or so. The other 50 are coming from places like Roscam and Claregalway to attend a local primary school in order to get accepted in secondary school.


Advertisement