Ontario's Liberal government won't prevent Canada's largest school board from establishing a controversial new black-focused school – a position critics say flies in the face of the party's much-touted opposition to funding religious schools, which helped propel it to victory in the last election.
Premier Dalton McGuinty frowned today on the Toronto District School Board's plans for the black-focused school, but said it wouldn't be up to the province to take action against the publicly funded board.
"I am disappointed with the board's decision," McGuinty said.
"I don't support it and we won't fund it. I continue to believe that the best way for us to educate our children is to bring them together so they can come together, learn together and grow together."
Source - The Canadian Press Jan 31, 2008
Now I don't know about you, but I am totally against having these kinds of schools. It makes me feel that our society is going backwards instead of forwards. Many of you may not agree with me (and that is fine), but I believe that the only parents who are going to send their kids to a black-focused school, are those who really don't like white people in the first place. Because, really, all kids should be educated the same. Their foundation in education should not be ethnically based.
Cultural learning should come from the parents and the family. Once the child grows up and goes to high school and possibly onwards to college, this is the time when I feel courses about different cultures should be offered. There is nothing wrong with being true to your roots, learning about them and helping others to understand the similarities and differences. This can be done without the need to "segregate".
In Canada, we are a "tossed salad" not just a tomato salad. It is important that all the ingredients get mixed around, blend, be harmonious with one another. With having black-focused schools, soon enough there will be muslim schools, islamic schools, asian schools....Is this really where we want to go in a first world country, with such a diversity that the world looks upon with admiration? I surely hope not. This is not the answer.
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Well seeing as we have Catholic schools and private schools and Muslim schools and Jewish schools, if this group wants a school, why not?
Otherwise, make it one board for all.
....there is a different Gigs, one is based on religion...the other is based on race.
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