Re: Public and Catholic education is constitutional, others are not
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Posted by karen on 20:44:42 2007/08/06
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Re: Public and Catholic education is constitutional, others are not posted by Al Gordon
We are talking about 2 different things. In Ontario private religious schools are not funded and are costing the province nothing (except for the Catholics). If all the non-Catholic religious students went to public schools you would need more buildings, teachers, janitors etc., all things that cost money. In B. C. religious schools are partially funded, not fully funded. It would cost B.C. more money to have all of those students in public schools than the way it is now for the same reasons mentioned above. So much for economics 101, Al. The separation of church and state is a separate argument. I do vividly recall starting my public school days with the Lords prayer. In high school things were a little different in that we would begin our day listening to students of different religions taking turns recitning prayers. In kindergarden I learned the song Jesus loves me. In grade 5 I performed in the Christmas concert. In my opinion if public schools today "celebrate" the Christian religion through music or art at Christmas and Easter than there is no separation of church and state. It should be celebrate all or none or leave me out of it. I don't care if the first Canadian immigrants were Christians, things have changed and if you are all for public schools and the separation of church and state than that should include the watered down version of Christianity that is celebrated in the schools at certain times of the year. Rant over.
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