Outrage Over School Textbook Branding Traditional Irish Families As Bigoted While Glorifying Diverse Families and Forcing Kids to Choose Sides

 A new Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE) textbook trashes traditional Irish families as backward and bigoted, idealises diverse families and forces students to choose which family they’d prefer to belong to, fumes Niamh Uí Bhriain in Gript. Here’s an excerpt:

Did you know that if you love GAA, and have a family business, and play Irish music, and holiday in Ireland, might be critical of RTÉ, and support Irish filmmaking – and maybe keep hens, and think potatoes are tasty – you are Family A in a SPHE handbook being used in Irish schools since 2023? And its very obvious that Family A are not just inferior to diverse families, but they are probably bigoted, insular and small-minded too....<<<Read More>>>...