tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post5090963734369321800..comments2024-01-03T19:31:59.663-05:00Comments on Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Religious schools: The Newfoundland experienceBlastFurnacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561725837264524099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-91882891850898285952007-09-17T21:59:00.000-04:002007-09-17T21:59:00.000-04:00The problem as I see it, Joanne, is that Mr. Tory ...The problem as I see it, Joanne, is that Mr. Tory hasn't been clear about where he's going to get the money ... or how it's going to work. At first, we were led to believe that private religious schools would be permitted to apply to join public school boards and get funding that way. Then we were told, no, they'll get money directly.<BR/><BR/>Okay, fine ... I could live with that, in BlastFurnacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561725837264524099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-34868852051526816382007-09-17T20:29:00.000-04:002007-09-17T20:29:00.000-04:00I'm having trouble understanding something in this...I'm having trouble understanding something in this post. Perhaps you could elaborate:<BR/><BR/><I>If John Tory was simply putting non-Catholic religious schools on an equal footing with Catholic ones it might not be an issue.</I><BR/><BR/>What does that mean? Thanks.Joanne (True Blue)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17445664997050698154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-85221007659908441822007-09-17T06:32:00.000-04:002007-09-17T06:32:00.000-04:00No Jan, I haven't forgotten that. I was one of th...No Jan, I haven't forgotten that. I was one of the early beneficiaries of the extension of funding of Catholic schools to grades 11 and 12 -- and even when that finally did happen the Catholic school boards took a rather bigoted attitude when they tried to persuade the students and parents to lobby Queen's Park against amendments that required Catholic schools to hire non-Catholic teachers.<BR/>BlastFurnacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561725837264524099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-24943099405185823342007-09-16T22:59:00.000-04:002007-09-16T22:59:00.000-04:00"diminished to a degree but there are some still v..."diminished to a degree but there are some still very hard feelings", I noticed in the article that the main voices and quotes were by Catholic Trustees, one as the president of the Canadian Trustees Association and the other a Catholic Trustee from, I believe, pres of the Ontario Catholic Trustee Association. <BR/>Too bad, they didn't talk to say, public school trustees, or other types of susansmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573558646874765432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-47238137952906823322007-09-16T22:27:00.000-04:002007-09-16T22:27:00.000-04:00Thanks for your comments, Edward. It's probably h...Thanks for your comments, Edward. <BR/><BR/>It's probably hard to fathom for a lot of Canadians that education could be such a sticky issue -- but since 1982 the Constitution has been amended seven times. One dealt with aboriginal rights, one authorized the "fixed link" between PEI and NB, two dealt with representation in the Commons and FOUR have dealt with education.<BR/><BR/>One of those BlastFurnacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561725837264524099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-28874005983468310862007-09-16T22:15:00.000-04:002007-09-16T22:15:00.000-04:00I worked for Clyde Wells and remember the entire w...I worked for Clyde Wells and remember the entire wrangle.<BR/><BR/>One of the persistent misrepresentations was that the issue was about minority rights in education, as the case would be in most other provinces.<BR/><BR/>In NL, the majority - i.e. seven or eight Christian sects - held rights while minorities, held absolutely none.<BR/><BR/>it is absolutely astonishing to see Ontario considering Edward Holletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13152397042408814142noreply@blogger.com