This time, why did 8 OCDSB Trustees vote against instructing staff to clarify what is meant by religious accommodation?
I don’t get it. It was a simple request. No implications. Or are the 8 Trustees politically sensitive to what such a report might contain?
Trustee Fitzgerald – the sponsor of the motion – writes in today’s Citizen:
It is bad enough that we have a completely separate school system in this province existing side by side with the secular system.
A study. That’s all that was asked. A study.
I guess I’m just not smart enough to understand the subtleties of School Board politics.
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Maybe they’d have to give up offering Gideon Bibles if that were the case – http://www.ocdsb.ca/ab-ocdsb/bm/mr/Board%20Meeting%20Minutes%202005/April%2025,%202005.pdf
It’s funny that they claimed it was discontinued here http://www.ocdsb.ca/ab-ocdsb/bm/mr/Board%20Meeting%20Minutes%202005/April%2011,%202005.pdf and the next meeting says it’s at the principal’s discretion.
Hmm, I wonder if they’ve come up with anything new in the past 7 years.
Well, how interesting is THAT?
I wonder what the practice is in 2012… I think I’ll ask.