Well, you better not complain, because in that scenario, you would be creating what the government calls a “culture war.” By objecting to your kids being taught garbage, you are creating a conflict, and you are the problem apparently. You should instead allow ideologues with unhinged, unscientific beliefs to railroad your children with their personal brand of deranged propaganda, and not utter so much as a word of objection.
Now, luckily, nobody in Ireland is proposing teaching zodiac nonsense in schools. And thank God for that. But that doesn’t mean that parents are happy with everything that’s on the school curriculum.
Many parents, for example, object to claims like that of Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty that there are, quote, “about 9 genders.” It could be 8, it could be 10. But it’s a lot more than 2 so far as the leader of the Seanad is concerned.
If there is a culture war in Ireland, it’s being waged by the government – Gript