Petition calling for Alberta’s two school boards to merge
Posted Dec 2, 2010 8:44 am.
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A former Alberta education minister has started a petition to get rid of religion in the classroom.
David King, who served in Peter Lougheed’s cabinet, launched a website aimed at eliminating religion-based separate school boards in Alberta in favour of a single public system.
King says he’s raising the issue now because the provincial government is planning to look at the Alberta School Act in the spring; he feels that should include a discussion about the future of separate school education in the province.
King tells The Calgary Herald separate school education fragments the community and undermines the concept of what a community is.
He goes on to say sending some kids to one school because of their religion and other kids to another school because of their religion gives them the wrong idea.
Representatives from both Alberta Education and the Calgary Catholic School District don’t feel the idea will get very far.
