Quebec’s Education Ministry is retaining monitor of 17 faculties for possible offenses of the district’s secularism regulation.
According to a declaration from the ministry, it’s sending out auditors to these faculties to verify them in between right this moment and mid-January
In its declaration Thursday early morning, the Education Ministry acknowledged it obtained quite a few issues and data regarding offenses of the secularism regulation, which is usually described as Bill 21.
The ministry states the main points it obtained confer with the secularism regulation’s “four principles”: the splitting up of the state and spiritual beliefs, religious nonpartisanship, equal rights, and the freedom of ideas and religion.
“The mandates for these auditors are necessary to protect our students. Schools exist for them. Their safety and wellbeing have to be our top priorities,” Drainville acknowledged in a declaration.
“We cannot let people with unacceptable behaviours or motives based on ideologies or personal beliefs enter our schools.”
Eleven instructors at Bedford grade faculty have been placed on maintain final month for purportedly growing a dangerous ambiance that returns to 2016. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)
Bedford debate
Last month, Premier Fran çois Legault launched his federal authorities will surely search for strategies to a lot better impose secularism in faculties.
The alternative was out there in the midst of a debate together with Bedford grade faculty, which lies in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges space. The establishment was the subject of a 90-page government report checking into the conduct of instructors implicated of growing a dangerous ambiance for each trainees and personnel.
Those instructors, 11 in total, have been suspended and had their mentor permits placed on maintain additionally.
The federal authorities document regarded their abilities diploma, the outcomes of their practices on trainees and personnel, and the obligation religion might need performed of their practices and the stress on the establishment.
Most of these instructors have been, based on the document, of Maghrebi starting. The document moreover mentions that personnel from varied different histories have been moreover element of the bothersome crew– and that personnel from Maghrebi starting have been moreover element of an reverse crew knocking their coworkers.
Its recommendations principally targeting making certain instructors have been proficient adequate to function within the establishment and enhancing the establishment answer centre’s functionality to maintain monitor of the situation.
The document moreover acknowledged circumstances the place instructors participated in religious methods, like petition or ablutions, although it situated that these have been primarily finished removed from trainees and on the instructors’ very personal time.
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On Oct 22, effectively after the federal authorities document had truly been revealed, Education Minister Bernard Drainville acknowledged an investigatory board knowledgeable him it had adequate proof to suggest that the district’s secularism regulation was not being successfully utilized.
Drainville acknowledged the auditors’ searchings for will definitely notify the federal authorities’s following actions for the universities involved and the enforcement of secularism suddenly.
Here are the 17 faculties and the establishment answer centres that supervise each one. Three of them, Bienville grade faculty, Saint-Pascal-Baylon grade faculty and La Voie High School, have been presently being saved a watch on earlier than Thursday’s assertion.
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Saint-Odile (Centre de options scolaire de la Capitale)
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Cardinal Roy (Centre de answer scolaire de la Capitale)
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Henri Beaulieu (Centre de options scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys)
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des Saint-Anges (Centre de options scolaire Marie-Victorin)
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Jean-Jacques-Rousseau (Centre de options scolaire des Mille- Îles)
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Saint-Pascal-Baylon (Centre de options scolaire de Montreal)
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Bienville (Centre de options scolaire de Montreal)
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La Voie (Centre de options scolaire de Montreal)
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École Saint-Justin (Centre de options scolaire de Montreal)
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Notre-Dame- de-l’Assomption (Centre de options scolaire de Montreal)
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la Dauversi ère-Évangéline (Centre de options scolaire de Montreal)
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Mont- de-La Salle (Centre de options scolaire de Laval)
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Leblanc (Centre de options scolaire de Laval)
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The École d’éducation internationale Filteau (Centre de options scolaire des Découvreurs)
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The École polyvalente de l’Érablière (Centre de options scolaire des Draveurs)
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Saint-Isidore (Centre de options scolaire des Rives- du-Saguenay)
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Saint-Denis (Centre de options scolaire des Rives- du-Saguenay)
Last month, a document concerning an occasion of possible religious indoctrination at Alphonse-Pesant grade faculty in Montreal’s Saint- Léonard district triggered Drainville to require responses from the Pointe- de-l’Île establishment answer centre.
That establishment was not consisted of within the guidelines launched Thursday.
