Parents suing over teaching of religion being unreasonable, says school board [IrishTimes]
- Published: 09 September 2011
A COUPLE who are intending to sue their child’s former national school over the teaching of religion are being “unreasonable”, the school’s chairman has said.
Ken Kiernan and his partner Alma Carey-Zuniga withdrew their now seven-year-old son from Annacurra national school in Aughrim, Co Wicklow, two years ago, claiming the school did not honour its commitment to exclude him from Catholic teaching.
They intend to take a constitutional challenge against the school and the Department of Education.
Parish priest Fr James Hamill, chairman of the board of management, said it had made attempts to cater for the boy by moving religious instruction to the end of the day so he could be picked up early.
However, the couple’s demands would have excluded the saying of grace before meals, prayers before or after class, nativity plays and carol singing because their child could not be left unsupervised.
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