3 Primary Schools Will Not Use Catholic Bishops Sex Education Programme.

Monday, 14 June 2021 09:23

One school says Flourish is "discriminatory" to LGBT families.

It’s believed three primary schools in the country have decided not to use a new relationships and sexuality education syllabus, devised by the Irish Bishops Conference at Maynooth

Lacken NS in County Wicklow found the Flourish Programme to be "discriminatory" to LGBT families and not in accordance with the constitution, which supports same sex marriage.

David Graham from Education Equality says parents raised concerns over the new curriculum:

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