A while back, I wrote this piece about non-Catholic kids in this small Alberta community being forced to attend a Catholic school.
The Alberta Education Minister, Dave Hancock, seems to agree that a way must be found to provide a secular education to families on the area.
They have a legitimate beef, says Hancock. “I think that they’re entitled to a public education that doesn’t include religion,” he said in an interview.
The columnist goes even further and notes:
Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and any other religious group has the right to educate their children in a faith-based system if they choose – but it should not be on the public’s dime.
In the meantime, it is encouraging that the Alberta government is on its way to correcting this injustice.
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