Students in Catholic school not required to attend religious programs

[_myaugust]

A student at a Catholic high school in Brampton, Ont. has been exempted from attending his school’s religious programs by an Ontario Superior Court ruling.

The student’s father, Oliver Erazo, fought the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board to exempt him from religious liturgies and retreats, including mass, under provisions in Ontario’s

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[robintheshrew]

From what I've read a lot of Catholic churches and institutions, at least in the US, are trying to be more progressive to maintain their congregations.

[amyura]

When I went to uni in Canada and did a lot of volunteer tutoring in public schools, I was always taken aback by the religious public schools. In Montreal, in the 90s, it used to be that public schools were either Catholic or Protestant. They've since changed it so that schools are separated by language-- English or French, which makes a lot more sense to me.

[lamardeuse]

Going to junior high and high school in Ontario, I always thought it was bizarre that the provincial government was funding a separate Catholic school system. And the kids who go there can't even opt out of religion classes and "retreats" on the public dime where they're brainwashed in the religion? What bullshit.

[fleurdelacour]

I was always so jealous of the catholic schools, they were SO well funded and always renovated and nice and the public schools I went to were 50+ years old and had the USSR in the textbooks

there's been an obvious divide for a long time at least in the area of Ontario where I grew up and it's ridiculous it hasn't been appropriately addressed yet

[anolinde]

I thought this school was in the US until I read the comments here and I was so confused, lol.

[twirlgrrl]

Right. I was like, why is a catholic school publicly funded? Weird.