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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
I went to catholic schools in Calgary and I’ve made pretty clear my views on Catholicism and how it systematically indoctrinates children. Limited empathy for others however, isn’t a feature I recognised within my time in that school system. If anything, learning and living in a way that was empathetic to others was a very strong feature of my time there. I had some incredible teachers in that system.
When I was in Calgary this year, I met up with a retired teacher - not mine but a mutual friend with others and it was just amazing listening to his stories and how his pupils remained in contact with him - one of the stories was mind blowing.
I agree there shouldn’t be duplication of administration/overheads and segregation, but I do think I was a student within the better school system - minus the indoctrination of course.
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Yeah, my kids are in cbe because we didn't want the catholicism part, especially in elementary. But I've had multiple relatives who either attended both cbe and cssd, or taught in both cbe and cssd. And 100% of them (all but 1 are not catholic) say cssd is way better run. The atmosphere of the schools are better, the administration is way better, etc. I'm good to cut 1 set of overhead and consolidate, but if you do that you should cut cbe.