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

I had considered it, even in the above discussion about their reading of law. Not being exposed during your education to alternate opinion will without doubt lead to a lack of development of some fundamental life skills, critical thought, social interaction, empathy and comprehension.

In the above discussion, Ammi Burke has demonstrated the reading skills required to get a law degree. In her professional career she has demonstrated a lack of ability to interact with colleagues and management and a lack of ability to comprehend the law which she can undoubtedly quote verbatim.

So Enoch can sue the state, but he'll be suing the state for letting his mother teach him without adequate state supervision.

Enoch was banned from the school and look at the stand he took. 😉

What if the judge gave the students being disrupted the opportunity to choose charities to benefit from the fine if it needs to be imposed. The money going to an LGBTQ+ charity might be a little more motivating.

Look I genuinely don’t care how ppl take this but to repeat - my relations in castlebar said to me that the Burke’s are respected locally BUT again, that does not mean that ppl follow their beliefs.

The Burke’s do local voluntary work which is known and respected in the locality.

Ppl from all over Ireland join the Burke’s for prayer meetings. This is when the bookshop does most of its trade.

Any details of this voluntary and councilling work you keep talking about?

'Locally'. Very vague. That could mean a 92 yr old living next door. Come back to us with details of their voluntary work. Anyways, means nothing. Even if they do, that doesn't make all their wrongdoings go away.

This argument is going on now for about 24 hours.

The poster can hardly publish here the names of the people he spoke to or provide links if they don't exist.

At the end of the day does it matter if some people in Castlebar think the Burkes have done some good?

Enoch Burke has still walked himself into an impossible situation and finds himself on the wrong side of the law.

His family have on many occasions behaved badly and appear to have few positive traits.

The facts are clear and the sun will come up again in the morning.

As with many things in this country, there's light touch regulation. On one level, you could argue that the Burkes got a good education. They didn't lose out academically and maybe that's all the Dept. of Education looks out for. Trying to measure the softer skills is an altogether trickier proposition. It might also be dicier territory because you're now impinging on a family's privacy and asking who the children are socialising with etc. Something tells me the Burke children didn't spend much time with kids who weren't relatives or the offspring of like-minded friends. From what I can see, the only reasons why these 10 kids weren't sent to a local school were control and religious ideology. It's an awful shame because it has rendered some of them unfit for modern-day workplaces. They don't appear to have the tools to deal with the everyday crap that comes many of our ways. How many of us have had to grit our teeth and do things we didn't agree with? They have also adopted their mother's way of dealing with things that don't go their way. They roar and shout and refuse to compromise in any way. Is there anything to be read into both parents being self-employed? I reckon that's the only way forward for most of the Burke children. They don't seem to be capable of working with other people.

So all of this stemmed from the original incident. The way he talks he feels it's all tied together, the way he has gone about standing up for himself is all wrong though. He played it so badly.

They are not respected locally because they perpetuate the idea that people in west of the country are backward.

Voluntary work? Well praise be to God Enoch will have something to do going forward.

Yep. I actually feel sorry for people getting outraged over email signatures. Its hilarious that they also claim pronouns are also "fictional"

I would have presumed the issue was being forced to use them.