Ireland - choosing primary school - avoid gender ideology?

[ohnoitsagruffalo]

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!

@ohnoitsagruffalo

thanks *@Kotatsu*. there is actually a CoI school near us and I have spoken to the principal who seems nice but the issue I had with it is that you can't really opt out of religion there it seems. (Although she did say it is just one bible story a week and they talk about morals etc.) Whereas in the catholic schools I've asked it seems you can opt out. Then again,I understand that in the catholic schools they would be giving a substantial amount of time to communion and confirmation prep and my son would just be sitting there with his workbook or whatever during that time. at least that wouldn't be the case in the CoI school

What harm. He could use the time to do his homework. Like I did during RE classes in England as the only Catholic in the class. Nobody else was allowed to opt out afaik.

well i suppose i'm a bit worried he will want to do communion etc cos "everyone else is doing it" or that he might be bored.. i've heard that some schools give a lot of time to communion/confirmation prep, indeed my own school did..altho this was 24 years ago

You might not have an issue with a DS, you would with a DD. I only did my first communication because it was the social event of the year with a dress we spent all year talking about, so DM let me do it.
But I think FHC and Confirmation prep are due to come out of schools, as it is increasingly a bouncy castle fancy dress fun day.

Yes, there is definitely a drive to move communion and confirmation prep out of the school day. Hopefully becoming less of an issue. My children go to a Catholic school, but there really isn't that much religion, and similar to the CoI it seems, the lessons they do have are focused in being kind etc., rather than religious dogma.