Westmeath school gets temporary injunction banning a suspended teacher from it's premises

We have a well established fact that he went on a rant in front of members of the public, including students and parents in relation to another student. He also ignored a court injunction and continued to disrupt by showing up at the school. It's entirely unacceptable conduct that you're trying to downplay.

There is no dispute over the fact he confronted the principal.

Policies which his contract of employment likely would have called out and required agreement to. I'm guessing of course, but that would be normal

The debate he would wish might be around how the CoI had decided these things (there was considerable division in 2018 among bishops of the Anglican tradition), what is the theological and scriptural basis, has that been formally and explicitly communicated, and on what basis the CoI sees itself as subservient to state law. I’ve posted about that already and not doing it again.

Also before: if churches are now fully compliant with state policy there is no justification for including ethos and characteristic spirit in any documents and none for insisting on denominational education or multi denominational. Non denominational with an ethos decided on basis of human rights recognized in state law.

Given Enoch's anti-equality stance, I found this amusing, its from his NUIG days apparently when he went for the role of Equality officer in the students union there

The policies have the required language on equality and inclusivity. (I haven’t seen any explicit statement on transgender in the admission policy but most people would assume it’s included under equality etc) They also have required language on ethos and characteristic spirit. There is sufficient ground to make a case (before what forum is a different story) that the latter can negate part of the former. Making a case and winning a case are different things. As a religious entity the CoI could clarify theologically how it has squared the circle. As I said earlier in the thread the CoI ethos is usually elastic.

In regard to your other post I’m afraid you don’t understand the structure of second level schools. If you look at the admission policy again you will see how specific are the links to the CoI. As other posters here and on Twitter have noted, what if Mr Burke decided his god told him something else was unacceptable?

Or now that the RC or CoI bishops decided that their god made divorced parents unsuitable? You can’t simply gasp and say they’ve modernized, they’d never do that, they’re inclusive, they’re lovely, whatever, when they have exactly the same mechanism open to them as Mr Burke: the scriptures, theology and traditions of their church and they are the decisive authority on what that means. A parallel authority which they regard as ultimately superior.

We can all see that Mr Burke is in jail for the contempt. But the mechanism which enabled him to start on this road is embedded in Irish schools through Irish law. Many do not want the issue ventilated. I’d hope that those who want this issue ended for the good of the student concerned don’t neglect to understand the mechanism that gave rise to it.

TL;DR It’s complicated.