A senior TD has questioned the suitability of some material on the Junior and Leaving Cert English curriculum as they contain descriptions and images of paedophilia, bestiality and torture.In a parliamentary question to the Minister for Education, Norma Foley, he said: “Many of the texts and films contain explicit, graphic sexual content including sex between older adults and minors, bestiality and torture,.Mr O’Dea said he asked the question after being approached by constituents.
Among the novels which contain graphic content are Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis on the Leaving Certi course and This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, The Savage by David Almond and The Outsiders by S E Hinton for Junior Cert students. Ms Foley said the curriculum was considered to be for all learners “regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic background, gender or orientation” but the decision on which texts were used rested with individual schools.
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