Comments on: I left Alberta to get away from this

By: Mesa Myself

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:52:47 +0000

PRAY at home or go to a designated religious school or if praying is mandatory during the day then discretely leave go to a private room and pray away from the other kids! We need a universal school without religious activities and without favoritism over one religion over another,,, so no religion and just education… I don’t understand why this is so difficult.

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By: Mesa Myself

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:48:40 +0000

I AGREE!

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By: Mesa Myself

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:48:03 +0000

Canada belonged to the natives and pagans before christians and catholics basically took everything away from them. Your people murdered thousands of innocent people cause they wouldn’t convert salem witch trials and so on.. I know the majority of you hate any one who is not of your faith and speaks out againt your bulling. You people come to my home and disrespect me and my family teeling us our faith is wrong. You and ISIS believe in the same god you idiots. Christian and islam jehovas you are the same as each other, hating those you can’t convert, terrorizing innocent people through verbal threats and violence , Christian terroists! both You people think you are so wonderful, so perfect.. You only hide behind religion cause you lead negative lives, a lot of you murder, steal and liebut because you say your a Christian you think you can get away with it cause you think your god will forgive you. Even if heaven was real I would rather go to hell than be there with people of your judgmental brain washed faith. You people say atheist are evil , they are GOOD people with good morals that don’t need to ask a supposed god for forgiveness , all the ones I know lead good moral lives because we know we only have one life to live and don’t need to hind behind a god so we can continue being bad like you people do.

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By: Mesa Myself

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:45:48 +0000

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By: Angela Squires

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:55 +0000

…’sexual health and biology classes’…not beginning till late high school? Bloody hell, no wonder we have std’s! I taught high school in the UK (11-18 year olds), back in the dark ages of the 70’s. Biology was part of the curriculum from 11 to 16 yrs. at my Girls Grammar School in the 60’s! We are going backwards.

On my final teaching practice in 1969 I taught human biology to 16 yr olds. The regular teacher told me reproduction was on the syllabus but I needn’t teach it if I felt uncomfortable. I reckon to this day that it was her who was uncomfortable! I taught those girls and boys everything I had learned from my parent’s bedside Family Health Book about sexual health and reproduction,(only read it because my Mum never got around to that little chat), they were spellbound. The girls told the boys to shut up being silly because they wanted to learn, it was my most successful class. I was only 5 yrs older than them! I laugh about it to this day

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By: Angela Squires

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:40:33 +0000

I have a problem with multiculturalism because it is being used to slide all sorts of gross abuses into Canada. Multiculturalism is used to allow criminals to escape punishment. For example: genital mutilation of women, forced marriage, patriarchal abuse of females,14th Century treatment of young girls and boys, child rape, honour killing of usually young women and more. M supports religion because so many religions are interwoven into culture and thereby claim a right to be in schools, taught even via the ‘backdoor’ as in prayer groups and rooms, practiced, promulgated. AB is blatant about it but this insidious process goes on across Canada one way or another.

I don’t know what the answer is but feel that Canada needs to assert the secular nature of our society and keep religion out of schools period. Problem is education comes under provincial jurisdiction so religion slides back in via ‘God squadder’ lobbying. Perhaps we need to be more assertive, at least to all levels of Government who take the easy way out and maintain the status quo (Statistics Canada) even by neglect.

I get the feeling that Canada does not want to push the secular bit for fear of these religions/cultures so is using Multiculturalism to just let the chips fall where they may.

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By: Ian

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:13:45 +0000

It’s hardly justifiable to let group X pray while you deny group Y, even if their religion “requires” it (maybe the Reformed Church will just set a new guideline requiring all children to pray daily).

I’m just really appalled at the pressure on the young to join these groups (of course it makes sense if you’re trying to win converts), but I fear that sexual health and biology classes (which don’t begin until late high school) could be severely undermined by some of these groups. Further, how does a prayer group foster diversity and acceptance that we hope children can learn in school?

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By: thoughtcounts Z

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:28:15 +0000

Setting aside space for Muslim prayer makes sense because one of the tenets of Islam is prayer five times a day at prescribed times. Preventing this prayer would be an infringement of students’ ability to follow their religion. I see it as analogous to letting Jewish students wear kippahs and letting Muslim and Eastern Orthodox Christian students wear head scarves, even when school rules ban baseball caps and other hats.

Christianity, on the other hand, does not require that Bible study be done over lunch.

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By: Ian

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:56:11 +0000

I totally agree with multicultural teachings, I just don’t like the idea of promoting one religion above the rest.

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By: Skinny Dipper

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:23:30 +0000

Two more things:

Good luck in organizing an elementary atheist group. If I were a student, I would be thinking lunch recess or being stuck in a room with an atheist guru. I’d go out for lunch recess–even if it is minus 15 degrees Celcius.

I do wish to say that having a multicultural school does not mean having the absence of religion but including others where possible. If students in grade two want to create a plasticine Manger scene, that is fine. Many schools have students who are Jehovah Witnesses. They do not participate in religious or cultural celebration activities. That does not stop the other students from participating.

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