The National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NCCA) is insisting that parents want more explicit sex information – in primary as well as secondary schools. In their July 2019 report (p 58), they reference the framework from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on sex-ed as meeting “best international standards.”
What does the W.H.O. ‘best international standards’ say?
The WHO’s Standards in Sexuality Education in Europe (2010) makes for disturbing reading.
It states that children between 0 and 4 years should be taught about “early childhood masturbation”.
It says that children need to explore gender identity – whether they are really boys or girls.
Between 9 and 12 years, the WHO says, children will be taught to “make conscious decisions about whether to have sex or not”.
What do our politicians say?
The Oireachtas Committee on Education also released a report in January 2019 seeking:
Compulsory sex education lessons at primary school.
Abortion to be presented as a reproductive right.
Children be taught about LGBTQI+ experiences and sexual practices in RSE lessons.
The Committee said that schools should NOT be allowed to opt-out of the new programmes – even if the programmes conflicted with the religious ethos of the school.
One parent’s group has described the recommendations from WHO and others as akin to as the ‘sexual grooming’ of children.
Introducing ‘porn literacy’
Other sex-ed programme designers are calling for schools to make children ‘porn literate’.
Even as evidence mounts regarding the harm caused by pornography, there’s now a major push to introduce school students to pornography.
Researchers from NUI Galway say this involves exposing school children to pornography so that they don’t feel ‘shame or stigma’ when using it. They’ve been given a platform on RTE and in newspapers to promote this.
Schools will have no choice
- if the politicians and lobbyists get their way
The Oireachtas Committee on Education says that the law must be changed to remove every school’s right to maintain its own ethos.
All schools, regardless of religious denomination, will be forced to teach the new programme. This is wrong. Catholic schools are being targeted in particular.
And the rights of parents are at risk. Shockingly, Fianna Fáil TD, Fiona O’Loughlin recently told the Dáil that some parents were “unlikely” to “have the skills to educate their children” regarding RSE.
Parents need to stand up for their children and their right to decide what they learn in school. Parents also have the right to raise their children within their own values and ethos.
Dangers of the proposed new RSE programme
The planned new syllabus is about ideology, not biology.
It will sexualise children from a very early age.
It will cause gender confusion and long-term psychological harm
It will normalise abortion as a form of birth control
It will ignore parents’ constitutional rights
Who is objecting to this proposed new programme?
Parents, teachers and schools of many different religious faiths, and none, are deeply concerned about the radical changes being pushed in RSE education. Most people see that it is being driven by ideology, not biology. For example, this video features a British Muslim woman, Dr Kate Godfrey-Fausset, outlining the problems with the UK changes. The issues she raises also apply to Ireland.
What changes have been introduced in the UK?
The video is a very short example of the type of content that is now taught to kids by teachers in UK schools.