Since Canada's constitution was established, the Catholic school system has been protected as a publicly funded institution. The presence of the Catholic faith is permeated within every element of the school. In Alberta, about one in four kids attends Catholic school — that's more than 160,000 students. True, there are parents who send their children to Catholic schools out of continuity, because that’s where they went or because they assume that the discipline and education is superior to that in the public system. “Be it resolved that separate Roman Catholic schools in Alberta lose their status as fully funded by the province, or be integrated into the non-religion-based public system.” That was the topic for a friendly panel-style debate at the IDEAS meeting last Friday. government invokes notwithstanding clause over Catholic school ruling'I don't think it's fair': Ontario group pushing to end government funding for Catholic schools “Be it resolved that separate Roman Catholic schools in Alberta lose their status as fully funded by the province, or be integrated into the non-religion-based public system.”

Funding Catholic schools is still important to the Catholic hierarchy, but how much it matters to everyday Catholics is unclear. Four locals - Heinz Unger, Michael Kerfoot, Andy Marshall, and William Hawkins - spoke on a panel moderated by Nic David, while audience members were given the opportunity to chime in. About Catholic Schools. Now, we're not talking about private religious schools here. Here's a 2-minute explanationIt has to do with history, politics and the constitution.Alberta education minister rejects sex-education curriculum of Catholic schoolsSask. Teen in critical condition after glissading accident in K-Country The vote at the end of the panel, held at the King Solomon Lodge, showed an almost perfectly even split between those for and those against. "That mainly means Catholic schools, but it also means Protestants can have their own separate schools in Catholic-dominated areas.It does not apply to other faith groups, however, as they didn't come to Alberta in large numbers until much later.Fast forward more than a century, and this is still the law of the land.The same doesn't apply, though, in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. Cochrane Crush earn redemption after last week's defeat These were some of the reasons those at the IDEAS meeting argued for and against merging into the public school system: Alberta's education system is complicated, to begin with, and the ways we fund it add a whole other layer of complexity. (The situation in the Atlantic provinces is a bit more complicated, as some informal funding arrangements for denominational schools existed to varying degrees at different times, but not a The other three provinces did have separate systems for a while, but opted to get rid of them.And Newfoundland and Labrador became the latest to do it, in 1998, following In Alberta, there hasn't been the same push to abolish the Catholic system.But in late 2017, Alberta bishops warned those calls "are growing Even if Alberta wanted to, getting rid of the Catholic system would be no small task.Both the provincial and federal governments would have to agree to make a constitutional amendment.In the meantime, it remains a right — and a popular choice for many parents.According to five years' worth of data from Alberta Education, enrolment in separate schools is growing 36 per cent faster than the province's enrolment, as a whole.Special thanks to UBC education professor Alison Taylor for assistance with fact-checking this storyIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onOnly three provinces still have education systems like this: Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The existence of Catholic schools in Canada can be traced to the year 1620, when the first school was founded Catholic Recollet Order in Quebec. But in Canada's modern demographic, made up with a variety of spiritual belief systems, some argue it's time to do away with it.

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