Our First Public Religious School

Hey, we agree on something!

It is not the government's place to create and run religious schools. In fact, that could be the beginning of the end to religious freedom in the USA.

Sigh. We have had a public religious school system in Ontario since Confederation. Its existence is even protected (at least up to grade 8) by our Constitution. It is, perhaps not surprisingly, Roman Catholic. I would love to see it go and merge the schools into the public system but don't see that happening without a lot of political turmoil so, like the monarchy, we are probably stuck with it for the foreseeable future. Oh, and did I mention that there are also separate French Catholic and public boards in areas with a sufficient French-speaking population?

So I do recommend that you Americans snuff this out quickly. Having multiple parallel school systems is not a good use of time or resources, IMHO, having lived with it all my life.

So much for separation of church and state.

I wonder how much revocation of constitutional rights paved the way for something like this to be possible.