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Ireland - choosing primary school - avoid gender ideology?

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ohnoitsagruffalo · 15/03/2021 22:18

I'm trying to decide on primary school for my eldest child - is there any way to ask the school (or another way to find out?) what their policy is on "gender ideology" or whatever you would call it? They are all Catholic schools (although they have students who are not Catholic also) and there is one Church of Ireland school (which also has a mix of all faiths). there is no educate together close to us which is probably best as I think they are completely on board with this stuff? any advice appreciated!

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ohnoitsagruffalo · 15/03/2021 23:31

thanks XXSex, that's a good idea - do you know how the schools can have different RSE packs if they have all to take guidance from the Department of Education/syllabus? i don't understand our system Blush. wow, JI is so young to be learning this stuff Shock

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XXSex · 15/03/2021 23:20

Ask to see their RSE pack. You can’t opt out of relationship and sex education training in schools. You can opt out of religion.

My school is trying to sneak Gender ideology into the RSE (from junior infants so age 4-5) making it impossible for parents to avoid it.

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ohnoitsagruffalo · 15/03/2021 23:00

thank you Sunhoop, this is kind of what I was thinking but just wanted to make sure i wasn't missing anything. we visited an educate together a while back (before we moved house) and they had the "gender rainbow" or whatever they called it up on the wall in pride of place so i am now completely biased against those schools Sad

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Sunhoop · 15/03/2021 22:53

They will just tell you they are "inclusive and accepting" of all children I imagine OP. With self-ID enshrined in law there's really not much else they can say. Plus I doubt most/any Irish primary schools actually have a policy on this and approach it on an ad-hoc basis as required.