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Northern Ireland teaches us the dangers of segregated schools | David Pavett

Peter Robinson, called for in order to separate state-funded Catholic schools and Protestant. Michael Gove should listen

If there is an area in the UK, who knows a thing or two about religious education is separated from Northern Ireland. The vast majority of schools are managed by either Protestants or Catholics. Children are divided into such religious institutions from the age of five. Given that religious communities tend to live in Catholic and Protestant opportunities for the generation and maintenance of misunderstandings between communities and even violence are clear. It's not a matter of speculation, but a bitter experience.

Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson has asked his party to work towards the creation of common institutions in a speech on November 25. Operating expenses of independent institutions for Catholics and Protestants may have helped to focus minds, given the current limitations. However, it is clear that more than that.

is particularly important that a political leader of Northern Ireland is to discuss the need for more integrated institutions. It is time that the question of the immense potential injury to the separation of children in different schools on the basis of the religion of their parents to advance the political agenda. Opening a debate in Northern Ireland contrasts with the situation in mainland Britain, where our political leaders are committed not only to maintain our existing religious schools, but also to several of them.

In a speech on October 16, Robinson had turned his attention to education. In a speech to his former Castlereagh council, said:

"We can not wait to go beyond our current divisions in the community, while young people are educated separately ... I think future generations will not believe that such division and separation was common for so long. The reality is that our education system is a benign form of apartheid, which is fundamentally harmful to our society. Who among us thinks it acceptable for a State or a nation to educate its young by criteria of race white schools or black schools? However, we are ready to operate a system that separates our children almost entirely on the basis of their religion as a society and government are not mere spectators of this,. we are participants and continue to fund schools on this basis and are then surprised that we follow. to have a divided society. "


Churches should be free to manage their own schools, Robinson said, but not on the basis of state funding. Meanwhile, in mainland UK, we must ask where political leaders are those who are willing to talk frankly about the consequences of government funding of religious schools. The contribution of Michael Gove is to encourage religious schools to get the status of the academy in order to avoid "interference" of the laity. His latest initiative is to send a copy of the King James Bible, with a preface by himself, all state schools. All major political parties support our religious schools and to accept or encourage more of them.



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