Jennifer Horgan: We ignore ‘small things’ causing psychological harm in schools
What we must focus on today is the removal of faith formation from school hours. Remove that, and schools come a lot closer to being egalitarian.
In 2024, despite criticism from international human rights bodies, Irish parents did nothing while non-Catholic children and staff were forced to sit through, or indeed lead, faith formation in their local schools.
“A tragic story. God, it was a very tragic story,” I heard one woman say, as we filed out of the cinema.
Setting a distance between then and now, having watched Small Things Like These, felt about right. The film depicts a world as bleak as the grey November sky that awaited us all outside.
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