SPHE Teacher's Interview - What Happens in the Classroom... - Mod Note Added to OP PLEASE READ

saw this on twitter

kids colouring in different LGBT flags as part of a SPHE exercise. which is grand on the face of it, but what flags were included I wonder?

googled lgbt flags and first result was:

don't have to go too far to see some controversial takes

In what context would it be appropriate for secondary school sex educators to be discussing fisting and rimming in a training course?

Nobody is preventing you from holding any belief you want. Equally we don't have to any particular respect for your belief. I take it you can't point to examples of you being discriminated against for being straight. 😂

Creedon, who has been a teacher for over 30 years resigned from her position as a SPHE teacher and coordinator after seeing the content expected to be thought to kids. She stated that she was told by Dept of Education body that if she refused to teach 12-15-year-olds, material on gender dysphoria and announce her pronouns, they would then get someone from the ideological NGOs, TENI or BelongTo, to teach in her place.

Teachers who attended the DCU course were told that the course workshops would explore what the SPHE course material would look like “in a classroom space.” Several teachers confirmed exercises which included the likes what the op mentioned "fisting" and "rimming" and all sorts - but there was an activity that asked students to write a sex scene about a “pleasurable sexual experience” including "line by line dialogue", and to include "notes on actions" and physical pleasure. Also a word game was used to examine porn terminology. Minister for Education Norma Foley went on national radio to gaslight a whistleblower accusing the teacher of “misrepresentation” and said that none of this was intended for a classroom. The evidence gathered by Gript from teachers present at DCU's course presents the opposite.

DCU invited Welsh Professor EJ Renold as "a workshop lead" for its course who stated young children "do sexuality" - and “heteronormative” assumptions of “children’s presumed sexual innocence” should be challenged through sex education policy. Renold has wrote that her work seeks “to challenge the often heteronormative, highly gendered and ageist assumptions of young children’s presumed sexual innocence” in the media and in current “sex education policy and guidance.” It’s “ageist” to presume children aren’t interested in sex??? In the current Welsh sex-ed curriculum academics have expressed criticism of the right of parents to remove their children from sex-ed classes or said that parents be denied that right and should be followed in Ireland.

In 2018, Dr. Aoife Neary told the Oireachtas Education Committee that “fears around childhood innocence act as a barrier” to sex ed in schools and that “comprehensive RSE” should start at age 3. Read her views on “queering childhood innocence”

Then the recording of the course revealed that "fisting" and "rimming" exercises were discussed in an Irish classroom - with a teacher praised for creating a "space" for school students to "get dirty". but this did stop the rap

EU and taxpayer-funded Journal and RTE had already been to their defense: "DCU 'exploring all legal recourse' after staff threatened following wave of SPHE misinformation" and RTE: "Targeted attacks' on DCU staff after video makes false claims about course'. They recoiled: they screamed misinformation, threw in misogyny even though a woman blew the whistle, and then played the victim. In their own defense of DCU RTE, the Journal, and other outlets who have covered this story did not contact Mary Creedon, the woman at the center of it wrongly accused of misinformation. They have all simply repeated claims word for word from DCU and the Govt, the justifications of and accusations made by DCU against the whistleblowers, flat out implying they are liars. That's not journalism, but propaganda. They were shown for what they are. The recording directly contradicts the claim made by Norma Foley that Mary Creedon (whistleblower) was spreading “misrepresentations”.

The DCU course has cost the taxpayer at least €468,000 to date for 78 SPHE teachers to attend this course.

https://gript.ie/photos-inside-the-dcu-sphe-course-fisting-writing-sex-scenes-porn-terms-examined/

https://gript.ie/audio-dcu-course-participants-discuss-talking-fisting-with-students/

https://gript.ie/on-dcus-sphe-course-prof-who-challenges-childrens-presumed-sexual-innocence/

https://gript.ie/irish-professor-fears-around-childhood-innocence-act-as-a-barrier-to-sex-ed/

There is a reason why a particular lot of people are passive-aggressive and blase about this vile degeneracy……The response i get from people I talk to about this never changes. People aren't aware of whats being taught to their child.

Welsh Professor EJ Renold and workshop lead at the DCU training course

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Mod Edit: Warned for link dumping

As of October 22nd, The NCCA has removed advice on “secrecy” regarding SPHE classroom discussion  The section in the document advised teachers which said that students should be told that what they discussed in the class was not to be shared with anyone.

https://gript.ie/ncca-removes-advice-on-secrecy-regarding-sphe-class-discussions/