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Originally Posted by Cheese
Skirting the question again eh?
Any other religious school in Canada is NOT a publicly funded choice. There is no tickmark to allow you to send your tax dollars to the Muslim school of your choice...so why Catholic? Is it "tolerance"?
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Again? I don't believe I skirted it in the past, so you can't tell me I'm skirting it again. Why is the only other option atheist? Is that tolerance?
Why Catholic? A number of reasons, the biggest being democracy and majority rules. The Catholic school board is how old? The Catholic church was the only method of education for how long? I'm not about to justify it because I don't think it can or should be justified. However, it has to do with the fact that we are a judeo-christian society, whether you like it or not, and next to 'no religion' or 'other', the second largest group of Canadians would be 'Catholic'. When the majority of your citizens are of one denomination, they have the right to send their money to a school which educates their children the way they want to. Believe it or not, that would be Catholic.
Perhaps if non-Catholics would quit sending their kids to Catholic school, the Catholic school board would shrink in size and some schools would be converted to non-denominational. Maybe you should talk to those parents. Maybe when persons of other religions decide that there is need of a public school in their area that is publicly funded and run on their denomination, they'll get one. Perhaps it's apathy... we just don't care.