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Author	Galstar82
Comment	No worries, genuinely thought it came from a good place. After the latest headlines with Orange sectarian marches, Rangers fans smashing Glasgow and the Famine Song March a few ‘reputable’ newspapers ran columns which basically blamed division of society on Catholic schools. Pretty much the same tactics that’s been used to justify sectarianism for many’s a century.. e.g They send their kids to a different school so my kids are justified intimidating them by mocking genocide and marching around telling them they don’t belong here, makes you wonder why separate schools came about in the first place really.. The English school system is a bit different in that school reports are published and parents apply for a place. I would be surprised if the majority of kids that go to Catholic or CofE Schools in London are even from they religions or practice regularly. Even here high performing Catholic schools in east Renfrewshire have a huge amount of non-Dom students, contrary to popular belief a lot of pupils are other religions or none. Highlands are interesting, there are some Catholic primaries at least dotted around. I remember this from a while ago https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/man-holding-ulster-flag-outside-catholic-primary-school-condemned-by-social-media-users-188855/ Quite what 7 year old Inverness Schoolkids did to provoke this is beyond me but I’m fairly sure none of them were ever active IRA Volunteers. But that does show the logic of Catholic = Irish =Bad Which in Inverness is probably wrong anyway, I’d imagine as many Catholic kids would be descended from Barra or newcomers from Poland as ones that were descended from the Irish.
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Created	Wed 19th Jan 2022 11:20pm
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No worries, genuinely thought it came from a good place.

After the latest headlines with Orange sectarian marches, Rangers fans smashing Glasgow and the Famine Song March a few ‘reputable’ newspapers ran columns which basically blamed division of society on Catholic schools.

Pretty much the same tactics that’s been used to justify sectarianism for many’s a century..

e.g They send their kids to a different school so my kids are justified intimidating them by mocking genocide and marching around telling them they don’t belong here, makes you wonder why separate schools came about in the first place really..

The English school system is a bit different in that school reports are published and parents apply for a place.

I would be surprised if the majority of kids that go to Catholic or CofE Schools in London are even from they religions or practice regularly.

Even here high performing Catholic schools in east Renfrewshire have a huge amount of non-Dom students, contrary to popular belief a lot of pupils are other religions or none.

Highlands are interesting, there are some Catholic primaries at least dotted around.

I remember this from a while ago

https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/man-holding-ulster-flag-outside-catholic-primary-school-condemned-by-social-media-users-188855/

Quite what 7 year old Inverness Schoolkids did to provoke this is beyond me but I’m fairly sure none of them were ever active IRA Volunteers.

But that does show the logic of Catholic = Irish =Bad

Which in Inverness is probably wrong anyway, I’d imagine as many Catholic kids would be descended from Barra or newcomers from Poland as ones that were descended from the Irish.