It can create problems out here too, though. It's becoming more common for fundamentalists out here to send their kids to private school so they won't have to learn that tolerance and science stuff. Which is what's happened in the US of course, but it's now increasingly exported.
It's becoming more common for fundamentalists out here to send their kids to private school so they won't have to learn that tolerance and science stuff.
Really? Gosh, that's worrying. When I was in uni, studying religious studies, and first began to think that for tolerance's sake, religious studies (as in, comparative religions) should be taught in high school, I found that my friends who had been to private Christian schools were the only ones who had had RS lessons -- and that they had been comparative religions, rather than just Christianity. I was quite proud of this as it struck me as so different to Christian schools in the States. I'm sad to hear it's changing.
What is really poisonous about "public" schools here though is how they help prop up and continue the class system. I couldn't tell you the names of any private schools in any city other than Vancouver, and as far as I know, there aren't any Canadian private schools that are direct feeders into McGill, U of T, UBC, etc.
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Really? Gosh, that's worrying. When I was in uni, studying religious studies, and first began to think that for tolerance's sake, religious studies (as in, comparative religions) should be taught in high school, I found that my friends who had been to private Christian schools were the only ones who had had RS lessons -- and that they had been comparative religions, rather than just Christianity. I was quite proud of this as it struck me as so different to Christian schools in the States. I'm sad to hear it's changing.
What is really poisonous about "public" schools here though is how they help prop up and continue the class system. I couldn't tell you the names of any private schools in any city other than Vancouver, and as far as I know, there aren't any Canadian private schools that are direct feeders into McGill, U of T, UBC, etc.
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