The Catholic Church is reportedly about to get the power to approve all teachers at the denomination's schools in Glasgow.
The EIS, whose opposition to Catholic schooling is well known, have really got the wrong end of the stick with their comments in the Herald today:
Last night, officials from the Glasgow branch of the EIS said they intended to oppose the council plans. Willie Hart, branch secretary, said: "The EIS nationally has a policy of equality of opportunity in employment regardless of race, religious gender or sexual orientation, and this development would appear to diminish that.
How? Has anyone said that Catholics not agreeing to the Catholic school charter would be waived through regardless? That those of other faiths cannot sign up to the charter? It's commonsense that if someone is teaching in a school that they uphold it's values. What would be EIS think if a teacher was advocating a different ethos in a secular school? That if they were deemed not up to the job that it would be discrimination? As Donald Keane wrote into the Herald to say:
I wonder what those in management of any company would do about an employee/supplier who wasn't prepared to support the company's business objectives. There is no substantive difference between that situation and the church with regard to teachers in our schools.
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