Parents must ensure Catholic schools endure [IrishTimes]
- Published: 15 October 2011
VETERAN IRISH- American politician Tip O’Neill lost the first election he contested, for a seat on Cambridge city council. His father took him aside and told him he had not looked after his own backyard. “All politics is local,” he told him, a lesson young Tip absorbed and used to great effect in later life.
It appears all primary education is local, too. Fr Michael Drumm of the Catholic Schools’ Partnership said during the week that when it comes to choosing a school, proximity and the quality of education are much more important to many parents than who is running the school.
In other words, patronage is not a key issue for parents. Nothing too surprising there. In fact, if you asked most parents their priorities for their child’s school, most would start with whether it was easy to get to, and whether it would help their child to be happy and to learn.
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