More freedom of speech in Canada
In the Vancouver Sun - Religious materials banned for B.C. home schooling:
Home-schooling parents are fuming after the B.C. Education Ministry ordered thousands of them to stop using faith-based materials -- or any other "unofficial" resource -- when teaching their children at home.
Many parents, including some who aren't religious, say they will cut their ties with the school system rather than obey the directive. "They can't tell me what to do in my own home," said Pamela Nagle, whose son is home-schooled but attends a Langley school one day a week.
Nagle, a Christian, said she can understand the ministry's long-standing refusal to pay for religious materials but won't abide by an order telling her how to spend her own money. And she won't be limited to ministry-approved resources that she describes as stagnant.
Wow. Granted, it applies primarily to students enrolled in a government program, but just because someone attends a public school for one day a week does not mean the government then gets to say exactly what happens the other six times.
(via World Mag Blog)
April 29, 2004 03:58 PM