Comments on: Thank heaven for religious schools — they keep our public system honest

By: Petrov

Petrov — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:17:14 +0000

it is great!

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Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:30:37 +0000

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Jack’s Newswatch — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:06:48 +0000

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By: Sandy Wakeling

Sandy Wakeling — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:58:53 +0000

Christy, great editorial!

In addition to keeping BC’s public schools honest, each child who attends an independent school in this province actually saves the public education system money.

The majority of independent schools in British Columbia actually operate at a lower cost per pupil than public schools. Should the province’s independent schools close their doors tomorrow, it would cost the province $317 million more per year to educate the 67,500 students in the public system. Plus, an estimated $1 billion of new capital funding would be required to construct the additional spaces that would be needed to accommodate these students.

By: Max Stelmacker

Max Stelmacker — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:27:19 +0000

How can you talk so evenly of schooling with religious-minded themes without even a mere whiff of acknowledgement towards the thousands of children who have suffered on the road paved with the good intentions of religions and government in institutions called “native indian residential schools”?

By: Chimera

Chimera — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:04:58 +0000

“No institution improves when it has a monopoly. Schools are no exception.”

When you put it that way, government should be no exception, either. The problem is that you’ve just confused the pizza with the cook and the delivery boy.

Education is publicly funded by taxpayers who all have one thing in common — a need for a standardized system of knowledge whose purpose it is to give children the tools with which to become fully functioning adults. Education is standardized, not a monopoly.

The monopoly would come in only if there were only one deliverer…only one school in the entire province.

Everyone needs to learn how to read, do basic math, have some knowledge of history…all the basic stuff. And it’s cost-effective to have everyone contribute with their taxes, because everyone needs it.

Religion, however, is not needed by everyone. And it flies in the face of equality for everyone to be made to contribute to something of which they get no value.

Catholic schools should get no public funding for the teaching of religion. Period. Religion is something that should be contained within that culture, but not funded by the citizens who get no benefit from it.

I have no objection to religious schools. But I do have a major objection to being forced to pay for them.

By: Silvester

Silvester — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:03:47 +0000

I feel funding religious 100% cheapen things. Keeping public school honest is the best reason to fund religious school. It is a different product all together.

I do agree with you on another issue. The BCTF union shouldn’t be the licencing board for all teachers. The licencing board can be independent to the government and as well as to the union.