A primary school at the north-eastern edge of Northern Ireland is about to make a little piece of history. Why?
The job of healing Northern Ireland’s deep social rifts is getting more urgent, and harder. When both the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland were in the European Union, practical issues of trade and borders did not matter; when theleft in January they became nigh-insoluble. The deal struck means that Northern Ireland has, in effect, remained inside the’s customs and trade union in order to avoid a trade border on the island of Ireland.
Education is also a microcosm of the mutual resentment that feeds tribalism. Although a rising share of Northern Irish adults, especially young ones, say they feel neither “Protestant unionist” nor “Catholic nationalist” in culture and identity, those who still strongly identify with one side or other tend to vote accordingly—and to feel that when it comes to schooling it is their lot who are being squeezed.
Well over half of integrated schools are new institutions set up by parents who see them as an essential part of a desegregated and more peaceful future. Existing schools can join their number, however, if 20% of parents demand a ballot. If half of all parents with children in attendance vote, and of those half say yes, the education minister has the final say, depending on whether the school in its new form will attract enough pupils to remain viable.
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