It’s probably quite fitting that the 10-year anniversary of the Patronage and Pluralism Forum Report ended in the same way it started - with a huge amount of apathy. When the Forum was set up to gather its data, the authors must have been seriously disappointed that despite having a multicultural 21st century Ireland, the vast majority of Irish people that contributed to the research were quite happy with a heavily Catholic-influenced education system. The question must be asked: why don’t people seem to care about church involvement in schools despite the fact it’s teaching them a huge number of wrong lessons?

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