The Price of Education [schooldays.ie]
- Published: 07 September 2011
Last week, my eldest child started Senior Infants. One of the discussions taking place among parents at the school gate was whether we had enrolled our children for secondary schools. Some had, I hadn’t and a mild panic set in when I was advised to get onto it straight away, otherwise my, now six-year-old, might not get a place in our preferred school when the time comes.
Trouble is, we don’t really know which is our preferred school. As parents who were both educated in non-fee paying schools outside the county we now live in, we have no knowledge or connections to any of the schools in the area.
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