Protect your right to choose a faith based school for your child.

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#201

It is something I feel strongly about

(Delgany, 2017-04-14)

#202

My grandkids have been educated at the local Church of Ireland school and I think parents should have the right to have their children educated in their own faith.

(Mullingar, 2017-04-14)

#204

The right to choose a school based on faith should remain.

(Kilbeggan, 2017-04-14)

#205

I want future generations to be able to pick their school for faith reasons if they so desire.

(Kilbeggan, 2017-04-14)

#206

I believe that parents should have the choice to choose a faith based school for their children. If the Government want to provide non-faith based schools they should do so transparently without trying to do so by stealth.

(Salford, 2017-04-14)

#208

I firmly believe that parents should have the ability to choose a school, a faith school, for their child. Also, why change what is working?

(Bridge of Cally, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, PH107JG, 2017-04-14)

#215

It is important that my grandchildren can be educated in a school with church of Ireland ethos

(Bray, 2017-04-14)

#216

Our problem is a shortage of school places in the greater Dublin area, and a lack of school choice throughout Ireland - while change in the system is required, all the current proposals make things worse rather than better.

(Dublin, 2017-04-14)

#220

Because it unconstitutional it interferes with conscientious thought. Because parents should be allowed to send a child to a school of their choosing wheter its faith base or not. Parents come to their cinclusion in were they want to send their child by using the thought process. Parents of faith therefore generally send their kids to faith based schools. Also sending kids to governmental run schools inhibits the child education. Children that get private education are generally better educated this is a fact.

(Urlingford, 2017-04-14)

#222

I believe in a right for our children to be educated in our individual ethos and belief.

(Dublin, 2017-04-15)

#230

I want to educate any future chikdren I may have in the way I choose within the church of Ireland.

(Cork, 2017-04-15)

#231

It is wrong to let any section of Society dictate to people because other people want to destroy people's beliefs.

(ARKLOW, 2017-04-15)

#233

The constitutional rights of those of a minority faith should not be trampled upon by legislative change designed to appease a rush to populism in response to the admission rules governing schools under the patronage of the majority faith. Protestant communities, whose members are generally geographically dispersed, should not have their constitutional right to educate their children in their faith in a Church of Ireland school under the Church of Ireland ethos removed. Local Church of Ireland schools are at the heart of Church of Ireland and Protestant communities and removing their patronage and distinct right of being will further erode the very existence of Protestant communities in Ireland.

(Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2017-04-15)

#235

A family should continue to have the right to attend a faith based school and I fully support this petition.

(Greystones, 2017-04-15)

#236

Because we should have the right to choose and school our children in the faith we raise them !

(Delgany county Wicklow, 2017-04-15)

#238

Faith based schools are the wish of the clear majority in this country. To change them, in the case if minority group schools will be in direct confrontation with the Equal status Act 2000

(dublin, 2017-04-15)

#240

I want to keep the "Faith" in our schools.

(Mullingar, 2017-04-15)

#241

It is an old tradition and I would like see it kept

(Mullingar, 2017-04-15)

#254

The minister has no mandate to attack parental rights nor to attack religious rights. This action of his is an unacceptable attack on civil society by an ideology which seeks to undermine and destroy civil respect and cohesion for minority and majority civic groups.

(Bray, 2017-04-15)

#260

I'm signing because I support the right to choose.

(San Francisco, 2017-04-16)

#261

I wanted to protect our schools and keep it the way it is. I want to chose a church of my faith for my children and keep the cultural and Christian faith for them. It should not be taken from us.

(wexford, 2017-04-16)

#266

Does this mean that Christian parents must send their children to a Muslim based school if their is no Christian school in their locality.

(London, 2017-04-16)

#269

i think it is very important to keep the ethos of the parish school

(Kiltegan, Co Wicklow, 2017-04-17)

#271

I feel faith based Schools are essentila for the future of christian faiths.if we don't protect Faith based schools their ethos will be diluted

(Wicklow, 2017-04-17)

#274

As a Catholic Parent I fully back the rights of other parents to have their children educated according to their Christian tradition and beliefs. I was honoured to serve as headteacher of a joint Anglican/ RC London school for many years and experienced first hand the benefits of denominational education.

(Killarney, 2017-04-17)

#275

It is important to maintain the ethos of the Church of Ireland by providing places for our children in parish schools.

(Wicklow, 2017-04-18)

#278

Parents of children have an inherent and constitutional right to nurture their children according to their convictions.

(Lucan, 2017-04-18)

#279

Parents should have the right to chose a faith based school for their child if they wish. Many parents feel the value of a faith based education and this should be taken in to consideration . All parents should have the right to determine the choice of school for their child .

(Greystones, 2017-04-18)

#283

Church Of Ireland schools need to be protected

(Gorey, 2017-04-18)

#288

I'm signing this petition because we wish to choose to send our children to a school of our denomination. It is not our local school...but we choose to send our children to a more distant school as it is the school of our faith. We are a minority religion in Ireland, therefore it is important that we maintain our schools....and the sense of community that they foster within the children and families of the Church of Ireland faith.

(Athy, 2017-04-19)

#290

Faith is a personal, God given choice and no government has the right to overrule that.

(Castlepollard, 2017-04-19)

#291

Faith is a big part of education. Ethos is an important part of our culture and it is important to pass it on.

(Dublin, 2017-04-19)

#293

I believe faith based education gives a better grounding to pupils and has and still does serve this country well.

(Dublin, 2017-04-19)

#298

As a Protestant, I believe it's important to have the right to educate our children in a school that promotes our own faith, the reformed faith.

(Belturbet, 2017-04-20)

#309

Because this Country still is governed by the Proclamation of Ireland and should have no right to marginal those who want their children, protected and educated the the same God including it's traditions (.e.g. baptism, communion, confirmations, christian education. "IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.

(Dublin, 2017-04-21)

#310

I believe in having a choice of patronage.

(Longford, 2017-04-23)

#314

It's in my interest

(Ballyconnell, 2017-04-25)

#316

Galatians 2:16

(Laois, 2017-04-25)

#320

I drove 35 miles round trip for 12 years to ensure my children went to a school that nurtured the ethos of the religion they were baptised into. Very important to keep that choice.

(Meath, 2017-04-25)

#323

I want everyone to be able to choose a faith based evucation

(Mullingar, 2017-04-26)

#324

We are a Church of Ireland family

(Waterford, 2017-04-26)

#325

I am an evangelical baptist and if we were sending our little ones to school (we are homeschooling) then we would want the right to send them to a Protestant school and not a Catholic one

(Cork, 2017-04-27)

#327

The rights of parents and their children to their choice of school is a right not to be tampered with. Being able to attend the faith based or non-denominational school of choice should not be directed by the government no matter where a family lives.

(Tubbercurry, 2017-04-27)

#328

Faith based schools should be allowed to give priority to pupils that share their faith.

(Lucan, 2017-04-27)

#330

Our community is small, community is important, and I do not want to see it disappear

(Dublin, 2017-04-27)

#332

Every child, no matter what faith, should have the choice to learn their religion in their school

(Mullingar, 2017-04-28)

#337

I feel that those of faith should have the option to send their children to a faith based school, as i feel my personal development would be incomplete without the spiritual guidance i received.

(Cork, 2017-04-29)

#338

Everyone should have choice

(Mullingar, 2017-04-29)

#344

As Chairperson of St Columbs NS Moville our school body Board,teachers & parents alike feel very strongly on this issue

(Moville, 2017-05-31)

#345

I'm signing because I firmly believe that the position of minority faiths need to be recognised and protected.

(Dublin 3, 2017-06-09)

#348

I went to All Saints andI I strongly believe that parents should be able to choose a Faith based school if they do wish

(Wittersham, Kent, 2017-10-26)