I’m not a fan of religious schools either, but they’re not going away anytime soon. You want to try for a constitutional amendment to get rid of them, good luck. As long as they’re a fact of life, the least we can do is teach our kids that no one creed is particularly better or worse than any other.
I went through the quebec school system and I didn’t see a single cross or christian religious symbol in any of my schools. The closest thing was a cross in the (historic) stonework of another school I didn’t go to, but those get removed whenever they’re renovated.
I don’t disagree the bill primarily targets muslims, but it’s not like the schools here are super christian or whatever.
Never been in a Catholic school I take it? Here in Alberta we have publicly funded religious schools all over the place and access to Catholic schools are a constitutional requirement. Even in fully secular public schools, good luck taking any kind of music or performing arts without having to sing some creed’s hymns or performing a play with religious themes. I’m actually really thrilled when a school has some religious diversity and isn’t afraid to include some Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Indigenous representation in the day-to-day, because it gets so monotonous to have so much Christian representation and nothing else.
I don’t know about Quebec, but I’d rather my kids get used to the idea that no one of any creed is particularly terrible (or has a monopoly on virtue). As for head scarves, I have no more objection to Islamic women wearing them than I object to Hutterite or Mennonite women wearing them. They’re wearing a hat, not reading scriptures.The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.
Yes, we’ve never had any kind of religious representation in schools like crucifixes and rosaries or religious figures teaching classes…🙄
Those should go too.
Those are constitutionally mandated, but if you want to back an amendment, I’m down.
Those also shouldn’t happen.
I’m not a fan of religious schools either, but they’re not going away anytime soon. You want to try for a constitutional amendment to get rid of them, good luck. As long as they’re a fact of life, the least we can do is teach our kids that no one creed is particularly better or worse than any other.
I went through the quebec school system and I didn’t see a single cross or christian religious symbol in any of my schools. The closest thing was a cross in the (historic) stonework of another school I didn’t go to, but those get removed whenever they’re renovated.
I don’t disagree the bill primarily targets muslims, but it’s not like the schools here are super christian or whatever.
Never been in a Catholic school I take it? Here in Alberta we have publicly funded religious schools all over the place and access to Catholic schools are a constitutional requirement. Even in fully secular public schools, good luck taking any kind of music or performing arts without having to sing some creed’s hymns or performing a play with religious themes. I’m actually really thrilled when a school has some religious diversity and isn’t afraid to include some Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Indigenous representation in the day-to-day, because it gets so monotonous to have so much Christian representation and nothing else.
I don’t know about Quebec, but I’d rather my kids get used to the idea that no one of any creed is particularly terrible (or has a monopoly on virtue). As for head scarves, I have no more objection to Islamic women wearing them than I object to Hutterite or Mennonite women wearing them. They’re wearing a hat, not reading scriptures.The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.