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Or was her son turned down by the school on any other formal excuse?
They were turned down by several schools only for not being baptized, their son is four years old.
Or was it a Catholic school which by law may be entitled to do that?
It's very different in Ireland.
Most schools in Ireland are Catholic schools and the church has a very long history of doing whatever the heck they want with impunity.
Our state couldn't afford to educate the country, so the church filled that void.
National schools date back to the introduction of state primary education in 1831. They are usually controlled by a board of management under diocesan patronage and often include a local clergyman.[9][10] The term "national school" has of late become partly synonymous with primary school in some parts. Recently, there have been calls from many sides for fresh thinking in the areas of funding and governance for such schools, with some wanting them to be fully secularised.
It's easy to spot discrimination, all you do is swap an irrelevant detail and imagine the effect.
If a secular school was not to accept a child because he was baptised, there would be WWIII
