On Wed 26th September, a delegation of Parents & Pupils from Ennistymon's Mol an Óige Primary School will travel to the Dail reconvention in Dublin.
We at the "Mol an Óige"group are trying to highlight our plight in respect of our application to open a new Multi-denominational primary school in Ennistymon Co. Clare. We intend to give a letter to our Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to remind him of the commitment he made to our school during his election campaign when visiting Kilrush earlier this year.
With all the recent media attention on two new Multi-denominational schools in the Dublin area, we as a parent group are asking that the Minister of Education will grant children in rural areas the same right to choice in education.
Two years ago we began an application process to open a multi-denominational school implementing the National School Curriculum using the Steiner model of education. Due to the unwillingness of the Dept. of Education to make a decision in our case the only way our children have been able to receive this education is because, we as parents have organized it ourselves.
Despite having met all the criteria and complied with the process laid out by the Department of Education and despite having received 2 positive recommendations from the New Schools Advisory Committee we still await an answer.