Now, I did see alot of province names come up, one I didn't see was Saskatchewan.
Cough cough, climb on soap box.
In saskatchewan they DO have a provincial wide catholic school system, along with a public school system, along with an independant French board AND an independant Native school system.
In some elementary schools it is MANDATORY to take a native language corse, and no french is offerend.
In EVERY school system (including Catholic) You can OPT OUT of the religion and take a course called "life studies" instead, which is a course that deals with interactions with other people, so social studies.
So, the class will divide itself into two groups and some go to religion, others go to social studies. it works very well, and I don't see any difference with what you are proposing. Given a choice, I don't see what or who could have a problem with it. Oh, and Religion is offered in the public school board too, don't know why though...or in what capacity since the french schools were all catholic including the french school board.
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Date: 2006-08-19 06:48 am (UTC)Cough cough, climb on soap box.
In saskatchewan they DO have a provincial wide catholic school system, along with a public school system, along with an independant French board AND an independant Native school system.
In some elementary schools it is MANDATORY to take a native language corse, and no french is offerend.
In EVERY school system (including Catholic) You can OPT OUT of the religion and take a course called "life studies" instead, which is a course that deals with interactions with other people, so social studies.
So, the class will divide itself into two groups and some go to religion, others go to social studies. it works very well, and I don't see any difference with what you are proposing. Given a choice, I don't see what or who could have a problem with it. Oh, and Religion is offered in the public school board too, don't know why though...or in what capacity since the french schools were all catholic including the french school board.