The public’s opportunity to weigh in on the new primary school draft curriculum will end at 5 p.m. next Tuesday, the 18th of June.
Since March 9th of this year, the State-run National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has been running a public consultation on the new draft curriculum, which it describes as “the most significant primary consultation in 25 years”, with the body saying that “NCCA wants to hear from as many more people as possible.”
“The feedback gathered from this consultation will be analysed and reported upon, and will contribute to the finalisation of the five Draft Curriculum Specifications,” they added.
The group went on to outline the rationale for changing the curriculum.
“The current primary school curriculum is 25 years old,” the NCCA said in a statement.
“When it was published in 1999, it was a cutting-edge curriculum, informed by extensive research. However, a lot has changed in our world since then, and research has provided important insights as to the kinds of learning experiences children should have.”
As recently covered on Gript, the draft curriculum has removed reference to the aim of “developing a sense of Irish identity” from the original 1999 curriculum, instead urging them to develop a “sense of identity as global citizens”.
The draft of the new primary level curriculum has removed a previous reference to “developing a sense of Irish identity” and added emphasis to developing a “sense of identity as global citizens”https://t.co/9jLrJ3qujb
— gript (@griptmedia) June 7, 2024
The framework also says it is “concerned with the best interest of every child, considering that they vary in their competence, language, family background, age, culture, ethnic status, religion, gender, and sexual identity.” Notably, the terms ‘gender and sexual identity’ are not defined.
The public can read the full draft specifications for the subjects of Arts Education, Primary Languages (Including Modern Foreign Languages), Social and Environmental Education, Science, Technology and Engineering, and Wellbeing here.
Individuals can weigh in with a written submission using this form, or by emailing PCRRsubmissions@ncca.ie to share their thoughts.
Education Minister Norma Foley has called on “all educators, parents, and stakeholders to contribute to this consultation on the latest stage of primary curriculum change.”
Similarly, NCCA Chief Executive Arlene Forster said that she encourages “everyone to take this opportunity to get involved to help ensure that the curriculum continues to play its role in supporting great teaching and learning.”
Vote this woman out in next election
It doesn’t really matter what Irish people think, they will just press ahead with their transgender bullshit and change our identity as they see fit as has been proven in the referendum, they didn’t consider anybody’s opinion other than their own, the traitors are still not releasing the information that was gathered from public opinion on that matter.
110% correct
Migration Pact NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!
They are on the migrants side, never on the Irish side even tough they rely on Irish votes to elect them.
This crowd meaning The National Council for the Curriculum are hellbent on putting pornographic books in primary schools and in public libraries which they have done, and which were forcibly removed under protest by a few watchful people including Gript. We even had the INTO producing a series of transgender videos for transmission in primary schools. In a companion video or videos aimed at teachers the spokeswoman for this organization was going to turn every school in Ireland into an LGBTQ school. Normal Foley is a danger to our children and our country and should be voted out of office at the next opportunity and Fianna Fail with her
There is no education in the public system, its indoctrination. No teaching about being Sovereign and that the Irish Government are a corporation registered in companies house, no different than McDonalds. Legislation and Acts are just rules and regulations for employees of the corporation Government of Ireland
“Norman” foley is yet another unpalatable and disturbing figure in Irish society. She has never listened to the Irish people on educational issues. Her supercilious rhetoric and hubristic attitude married with a superficial smile, hasn’t offset the overwhelming sense of entitlement she holds when she is pushing an agenda that is designed to indoctrinate our children. Her woke agenda is infiltrating transgender ideology and highly inappropriate reading material into the classroom on young innocent minds. One would suspect it is almost a form of grooming. Roderic o’ Gorman’s warped and distorted views are heavily entwined in this repellent agenda.
This is a curriculum invasion to get at the children and to torpedo Christian civilisation. Paedophiles behind it. All twisted. Coming from America. Chuck Feeney and other US philanthropists have pumped the universities with money to invade thinking and pump them with this madness. UL seems to be the worst, young student teachers indoctrinated. Ireland has bought into it wildly, the radical feminist mafia can’t get enough of it, these tossers think it is the liberation of their country. The Institute of Strategic Dialogue and Aoife Gallagher is their think tank, a corruption that they try to impose on the young. They want to get at the children. That’s foremost in the mind of every paedophile that’s behind this. The UK has fought back. In the UK schools, now, there are two biological sexes, male and female.
Gript 19 Dec 2023 – UK teachers not required to use trans. In Ireland, one is ‘far right’, an extremist if one opposes this rot. Children love to play and have fun. The curriculum must be child centred, in a holistic way, based on the child’s needs. What they are trying to put in the curriculum is a top down model, based on adult needs. Let a child be a child. They have God gone too, replaced by promiscuity, which the radical feminists equate with freedom, but we belong to a Christian culture. It is the capturing of children to be used as tools, to promote the evil desires of adults. History has been eroded as a subject, they do not want them to know national history, that involves the battles our ancestors fought and lost for our country’s freedom. They do not recognise our borders, they tell us we are an EU state, not a country. A country without borders is only a blob, it has nothing to protect, anyone can enter, which is happening. They do not want sovereignty, Micheál Martin said sovereignty is backward, in his headlong rush to be accepted by the mad NGO feminists and trannies, who are funded with countless millions, to destroy our country, heritage, our values, our past, to destroy our children and turn them into sex tools. It is pervasive. We must put all back on the curriculum, like how it was, when logic prevailed and not delusion. Sick children in Limerick hospital told to talk to adults about sexuality. There is a paedophile at work behind that, maybe more. Maybe a paedophile ring. Beware. Paedophilia is behind the invasion of the curriculum to normalise the sexualising of children for adult needs. A paedophile is getting a thrill from the mere thought of a child’s sexuality. When God is gone, something has to replace it, there cannot be a vacuum. They are putting perverted filth into the curriculum. Drag queens in libraries reading to the innocent. They tried to invade the constitution too, to get rid of woman and mother, to impose their twisted perversions. Countless millions of euro behind them. We must fight them all the way. Some of the classroom teachers, especially females with weak minds, will have been indoctrinated in the colleges and at in service courses. These weak people will accept bullology, to please the wokes in authority and their populist falsehoods that are cracked. We must give our views that are based on reason.
I made a submission. The Countess is a great resource for understanding gender ideology if you are looking for guidance. I found the following two books helpful. The first by Helen Joyce titled ‘Trans’. The second by Helen Pluckrose titled ‘The counterweight Handbook’. The first deconstructs gender ideology. The second deconstructs Critical Race theory specifically and Woke ideology in general. Pluckrose has a series of letters and responses you could use as templates. I’d suggest editing to your own language as the department dismisses letters they think are templates. Suffice it to say this is a matter of life and death for our children. I know from first hand testimonies from psychologists in Ireland that there is an epidemic of gay, lesbian and autistic children going through psychological hell right now because they feel they are being pressured into changing sex. Heterosexual children are deeply confused by the idea of gender fluidity. Female students feel unsafe in toilets where biological males have access. And most worrying of all, there is a very real risk that predators will seek to exploit gender ideology as a gateway to access vulnerable children. As Joyce points out in her book, gender ideology promotes gender stereotypes and puts back the fight for equality several generations. The ideology undermines safe spaces for women and children and enables the proliferation of both misogynistic and homophobic stereotypes. For my part I do not accept the premise of gender ideology given biological sex is immutable and do not want our children exposed to a political ideology which promotes this. I do not accept the premise of critical race theory and critical social justice, which promotes the unfounded premise that all white people are privileged racists whether consciously or unconsciously. And to use this framework to undermine the indigenous population’s identity as Irish is fundamentally racist. And I seriously question whether such a curriculum isn’t by definition unconstitutional? At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I truly believe that this is a political hill worth dying on. Metaphorically speaking of course. Tell your friends and family to write an email. Your children and your children’s children will thank you for it one day.
It’s such a shame to see what this lot have done to our island and it’s people. No wonder anxiety is a growing problem amongst the Irish youth. So little talk of tin foil hats anymore as those that could not see the truth now have no option. A big unpaid tax bill ended her fathers TD career. The rot continues.
These politicians are forever laying out their stall, proclaiming their hopes to transform society, their dreams to push back the frontiers of distributive justice. Then when the dust has settled they will blankly inform us that their hands are tied by EU regulations and International commitments.
The SFFG uniparty have internalised the Frankfurt School agenda to patholigise White people’s sense of group identity. Such was developed to advance a jewish group evolutionary strategy. White people need to read ‘The Culture of Critique’.
I wondered if I should send in some comments to the NCCA so I skimmed though some of the sections of their drafts documents. My first thought was how can an average parent get a grip on this verbose draft that is filled with so much meaningless gobbledygook?
Outcomes based education has failed miserably in the US and other Western countries and now we are faced with an Outcomes Based 2.0 curriculum that is filled with clear ideological threads that have nothing to do with teaching the the four Rs. Our children need a good foundation in Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic and Reasoning. It is important to learn how to think things through and work things out. It is important to observe carefully and notice patterns and understand how we learn. The Mathematician, George Polya wrote “When solving a problem, we always profit from previously solved problems, using their result, or their method, or the experience we acquired solving them.”
I wonder if this curriculum being so steeped in propaganda and ideology is not going to fail miserably? If I had children starting school I would be seriously considering home schooling and finding a group of like minded parents to work together on providing our children solid education not indoctrination..