1923

Criminal neglect

Nineteen persons were prosecuted at the Galway District Court for failing to send their children to school.

The cases represented only a small proportion of the population who might be described as old offenders against the school attendance order.

There are numbers of others who could be brought into court if the order were carried out to the last of the letter. In other countries, failure to send the children to school is regarded as a criminal offence and the offender is treated as a criminal.

Irish parents are charged with a grave responsibility towards their children in this matter. For centuries an alien Government conspired to keep the Irish people in ignorance and succeeded only too well.

We rightly complained of the way in which we were handicapped in the matter of education. No such handicap exists now. If we fail to take advantage of the educational facilities afforded us, we shall be doing a grave injury to our country and to the children, upon whose education will depend the future prosperity of society.

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