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Originally Posted by corporatejay
This is only an issue because there is no public school available I'm guessing. It used to drive me nuts when kids at my catholic high s chool would "refuse" to go to church during advent because they didn't believe in christianity. They were often told that there were plenty of other public schools available (Beave, Scarlett, Wisewood) within a 2km radium they could attend.
That being said, if they received a note from their parents they could stay back for study period.
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The St. Albert system is different from the norm. I don't know a lot about their system, but I have been told by people who lived there that the Catholic schools are the "public schools" and the Protestant schools are the "separate schools" (if they still use that terminology).
Edit: I just did some goggling and discovered that what I wrote above was correct. An interesting note is that the Public school system has less students (about 6200) than the Protestant schools (about 6600). I don't know what the ramifications are of going to the "separate schools" rather than the "public schools" (different fees perhaps?), but obviously there must be some for the parents to have a problem with the set-up.