Is it wrong parents must baptise a child to get them into a school?

Is it wrong that non-religious parents have to baptise their children just to get them into a school? asks Áilín Quinlan
Is it wrong parents must baptise a child to get them into a school?
Michael Barron, EQUATE director

LAST September, Jodie Neary, her partner, Enda, and their two young daughters moved from their home in South County Dublin to Greystones, a village in Wicklow, to secure school places at a local primary school for their two-and-a-half-year-old twins, Evyie and Mia.

“My partner and myself are not religious and we didn’t have the children baptised,” says Jodie, a parliamentary assistant at Leinster House.

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