Sam and Becky talk with Richard Young, designer of the Get Out Of Those Mandatory Religious Classes Free coupon being handed out to Canadian teens at publicly funded Catholic schools. They also chat with Dustin Williams of the Treasure Valley [...]
Excellent show about the Public Catholic situation in Ontario. My wife and daughter are both teachers in the secular public system. Being that neither of them are Catholic they are not “qualified” to practice in the Catholic Public schools. Essentially discrimination based on religion since you can obtain your teaching qualifications in any post secondary institution that offers a program. The following is an excerpt from the Toronto Star describing this: Catholic schools have a “preferential right” to hire teachers who are Catholic — or at least claim to be. I don’t know of another publicly funded institution that could… Read more »