Like seeing this, people are starting to wake up! Give them a hand they want the arm. Enough already!
Public school turns computer lab into a mosque
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These kids are in elementary school. The students were scheduled to go to the computer lab and couldn't because they were blocked from using the computer because the muslim prayers going on in the room.
I'm all for totally secular schools, but until you have a provincial referendum and we're still funding the catholic board then you have to support other religions in schools.
So start pushing for a referendum on catholic schools first, then you can ban all prayer.
a referendum? so your suggesting to take catholic out of catholic schools? isn't that kinda the point for these schools?
My suggestion all catholic students stick to the catholic school system. Public schools are open to everybody. If you don't want your kids to be religious at all , then home school them. But I don't think its appropriate to start changing things that have been around for decades.
My suggestion all catholic students stick to the catholic school system. Public schools are open to everybody. If you don't want your kids to be religious at all , then home school them. But I don't think its appropriate to start changing things that have been around for decades.
THANK YOU.
This is how the catholic school system works. You go inside, put your coat; away take your seat. After you take your seat the principal comes on the PA system saying good morning and starts the day off with the our father and the national Canadian anthem . Then he says the announcements and then class starts. That is the only time a prayer is said at catholic schools unless it is mass, something horrible happens in the world ( 9/11, etc) .
You can no longer say " merry Christmas " because it offends people who are of different religion ; you can only say " happy holidays".
How can you guys not see what is happening here?
Again sorry if I have offended anybody but this is Canada. We are a democracy; and always have/will be/. It is not fair to the permanent residents of this fine country that immigrants are coming here and trying to change our laws/ customs ! That is not right ! If people go to places in the Islamic countries we respect their religions/ beliefs just as we expect them to do here. For example, if you were to go to iran/ Iraq ( not that anybody wants to with everything that's going on ( the war , etc)) and you were a woman around the locals you would not wear a bathing suit or any revealing clothing out of RESPECT. which is something that is NOT being shown here. Sorry to those that think their is respect here because their isn't! It is extremely disrespectful to come to a country and try to change laws/ customs/ traditions when we welcome you with open arms and provide better housing, food, jobs, education, etc.
This is how the catholic school system works. You go inside, put your coat; away take your seat. After you take your seat the principal comes on the PA system saying good morning and starts the day off with the our father and the national Canadian anthem . Then he says the announcements and then class starts. That is the only time a prayer is said at catholic schools unless it is mass, something horrible happens in the world ( 9/11, etc) .
You can no longer say " merry Christmas " because it offends people who are of different religion ; you can only say " happy holidays".
How can you guys not see what is happening here?
Again sorry if I have offended anybody but this is Canada. We are a democracy; and always have/will be/. It is not fair to the permanent residents of this fine country that immigrants are coming here and trying to change our laws/ customs ! That is not right ! If people go to places in the Islamic countries we respect their religions/ beliefs just as we expect them to do here. For example, if you were to go to iran/ Iraq ( not that anybody wants to with everything that's going on ( the war , etc)) and you were a woman around the locals you would not wear a bathing suit or any revealing clothing out of RESPECT. which is something that is NOT being shown here. Sorry to those that think their is respect here because their isn't! It is extremely disrespectful to come to a country and try to change laws/ customs/ traditions when we welcome you with open arms and provide better housing, food, jobs, education, etc.
You have to be consistent and not hypocritical. No religion in any publicly funded school (including no Catholicism)
Either make no religions allowed inside school or make them all allowed.
But you can't argue that its ok that there's the occasional mass but no prayers for Muslims.
I went to Catholic school. When there is a mass, you get in trouble if you were found not in attendance. Also, classes are shorter because of the length of a mass. Non-Catholics have to go as well, and last time I checked Catholics were not the biggest denomination in Canada.
They even tried to make The Non-Catholics partake in Ash-Wednesday in my high school.
A mass is WAY more disruptive to education than letting Muslims pray from time to time. They should just have a religious room for everyone at public schools.
Certain people are just bothered by brown people who pray a little differently (Yes I know Islam is multiracial but most in The West don't see that).
I went to Catholic high school and our church wasn't even on the school grounds and I skipped out many times and was NEVER given any problems.
This story is clearly stating that prayers were taking place in a computer lab, (the only one in the school) during school hours while other students were not allowed access to do their school work in that computer lab and had to wait 30 minutes until prayers were finished before they could get to their school work. So muslim religious prayer is now violating the students right to learn in PUBLIC schools.
Even if that happened your parents CHOSE to put you in Catholic School. To pay the extra. And in making that choice so also does the religion.
A PUBLIC school by definition is supposed to be Secular.
Catholic schools in Ontario (the whole county) are considered Public due to how they are funded, they still exist for historical reasons (keeping the French happy) and taxes are not higher if you go to one.
Now you want to remove hollidays because they are what? Invasive? Well I will have to agree then, if you wish to send your kids to school during Christmas, Easter and other holidays because it is offensive or invading their education time by all means make them go to school, im sure the school board can hire substitute teachers for kids that don't celebrate Christian holidays.They are free to stay home during their own religious holidays.
But your shooting down the perks of living in a Christian country, while Christians put thier work and school on hold you get paid vacation and free time off even if you are NOT a Christian. It doesn't go that way for other religious holidays now does it? Christians dont get paid vacation or time off while their fellow Canadians are home celebrating whatever personal religious hollidays they are entitled to.
Your agenda to turn a Christian country to anti islamopbobia land and claim its not a religious war is bs, it is a religious war and has been for thousands of years. Only now instead of swords and shields this war is mainly fought with pen and paper.
The whole point of going
to a Catholic school is to be a part of the religion. If you are not interested in going to mass
or studing out of the bible you go to public school. Its not a difficult decision to make.
If you bring up the Catholic school board and its policies you have no argument in this thread. This is purely about the PUBLIC school board.
You can't complain about not being 'allowed' to say Merry Christmas, and then complain about having religion forced on you. Not unless you're happy 'forcing' Christianity on everyone.
Of course you could try being politely tolerant of other people's religions and setting the example you'd politely ask them to follow, if the occasion for discussion arose.
