Censorship in Ontario Catholic Schools

[brian]

Check out this article from CTV

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071123/compass_books_071123/20071123?hub=TopStories

Personally, I think it is kind of ridiculous that they have publicly funded Catholic schools in Ontario (are there any here?) to begin with.  And whether there should be religious private schools and homeschooling or not is also an interesting debate, particularly in light of what we saw in the movie last night

[Brennan]

I'm all for peoples individual rights to teach their children whatever they want so long as the schools are privately funded. Schools receiving public funding should not be allowed to operate with such discriminatory regulations.

[brian]

I'm all for peoples individual rights to teach their children whatever they want so long as the schools are privately funded. Schools receiving public funding should not be allowed to operate with such discriminatory regulations.

In my opinion, there are some good arguments against private schools.  First is the indoctrination of children being homeschooled by fundamentalists, especially with regards to evolution and science (as we saw in Jesus Camp... I wonder if private religious schools in Canada have any of the same issues).  Also, there is an argument to be made against elitism with regards to certain children gaining benefits such as scholarships and a better chance of getting into prestigious universities by going to prestigious schools.