Maybe if he’d gone to one of Ireland’s elite fee-paying schools, Drumm would – like Peter Sutherland – have learned how to deflect criticism of the damage he did.
Elite schools expect, and self-righteously demand, state support – while less-wealthy schools struggle, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
Decades of research has suggested that children from lower income backgrounds have something of a word gap, compared to their privileged peers. For the last 10 years, a programme in the Docklands has been trying to tackle that.
They’re obstacles for low-income aspiring students, they feed inequality, and they debase the fabric of society, says political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
Most Dublin primary schools are Catholic, and they can legally favour Catholic children when deciding who they will admit. Most parties say this needs to change.
