Religion and School
Hi. Sorry I haven’t written in a few weeks but I think that, because of the Junior Cert, I’m going to change from once a week to just blogging irratically. A little long between posts but it means that I have a little less on my plate. We are sorry for the inconvenience </suck-up voice>.
Last Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, the school decided to have an Ash Wednesday ceremony. I found this horrible. It wasn’t so much that they gave this ceremony in a school that is not meant to be Catholic, more that students who did not want to do it were forced to stay. VEC schools are meant to be non-denominational. Forcing students who didn’t want to stay and recieve the ashes to stay is against the VEC policy, I think.
Now the school seems to think that this is OK because the majority of people in the school are Christian. But that’s like saying that if the majority of people in this school have done Irish from an early age, students who didn’t do Irish should be forced to do Irish or at least stay in the Irish class. Now, while most students would stay in the Irish class, they would probably be free to do another subject (Example my friend, Tommy who took up French for a short while during religion.)
The school also claim to do this for health and safety reasons. But this is in the same school where a different friend couldn’t get safety goggles to wear during technology and came out of the class with red eyes from the sawdust. It seems the school cares about health and safety only when it suits them. This doesn’t seem right to me, does it to you?
