Last week at a post-budget press conference, my colleague Ben Scallan asked the Minister for Education, Norma Foley, a relatively straightforward question: Why does the new draft curriculum promoted by her department of education for secondary schools include an instruction to teach Irish children that they are “privileged” if they are white, Irish, or male? Here is the full exchange:
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