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Wed 09 Sep 2007School takes to field in protest over recognitionFifty pupils at a Co Clare school were yesterday morning taught in a field in protest at the failure of Minister for Education Mary Hanafin to officially recognise the school.Teachers and parents of children attending Mol an Óige Steiner school in Ennistymon and Raheen Wood Steiner school in east Clare had anticipated that Ms Hanafin would have made a decision on the schools' status before the start of the new school year.