Disastrous Budget Cuts on Protestant Schools
Protestant children are expected to get into a protestant school. Some protestant schools are free schools and only few were fee-paying school. Now, protestant schools get affected with the economic low downs and they can’t handle any more school expenses in educating students.
Comparing out schools, there are fee-paying schools but are not luxurious unlike some of the Ireland’s fee-paying schools, facilities were wonderful and are served in a different community. However, it is feared to disappear as economic crisis creates a big boom on schools either non-paying or fee-paying school.
Wynn Oliver, the headmaster of Sligo Grammar School says, “After a few years of this, our school may not be able to function. Sligo Gramar School is the Connacht’s only boarding and one of the 21 Protestant schools in the state.
The Monaghan Collegiate School draws students from its rural vicinity and Micheal Hall, Headmaster takes responsibility to cater families of the protestant community. He said, “We basically direct our funding to assist families who want to send their children here. It is intended that they only have similar expenses as Catholic parents whose children attend a free secondary school.”
Sligo Grammar School has only a tuition fee of €2,400 per year which is definitely low since protestant schools were given service grants worth of €2.8 Million. Now, the service grant was withdrawn, as it is very unfair to some other fee-paying school. This case had made protestant schools to take a teacher-student ratio from 18:1 to 20:1.
Cannon McCullagh said, “I have talked to several schools who have said that if these cuts persist over a number of years, they will not be viable. This isn’t drama for the sake of it. If one of our schools were to close, where would those students go?”
This problem comes so serious yet, everybody is hoping that the economy will boost up to get over with this problem.
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