John Connors has admitted that the Irish education system discriminated travellers in the classroom.
The Love/Hate star’s new documentary John Connors: The Travellers shows the realities of traveller life – including what happens in the family.
“There’s one law for us and one law for other people,” he said.
Discrimination: John admitted that he was treated differently to other kids in school | VIPIRELAND.COM
The Dubliner revealed that the discrimination was so bad that he quit school.
“There’s day-to-day discrimination in the classroom, it’s hard to take, it’s hard to stick with and go through that,” he told TV Now magazine.
“I quit because I couldn’t stick it. I remember being segregated and put in an all Traveller class and given books to read that I had been reading at six.
“I was 10 and they were treating us as if we were dumber saying, ‘You have to read these books.'”
Traveller: The actor revealed that traveller children are still being treated differently today | VIPIRELAND.COM
John also admitted that traveller children are still being treated differently to other kids in school today.
“I remember that happening with me, my brother, my family, every Traveller I know.
“And I heard of some schools who are still doing it to this day,” he added.
“If that was a child of a different colour, or religion, that would be over every front page of a newspaper.”
