what classes u all taking??/

Religion (boring...forced to take it)

Do you go to a clathloic school? I all ways whonder how they could "force" you to take it b/c no uni will look at that and they can not realy stop you from graduation if u have all the need credits aorcding to the offfical ontraio highschool graduation thing.

If you choose not to take religion at a catholic school, you'll still get your Ontario Secondary School Diploma, providing you have all of the other required classes, but you simply wont be able to participate in the graduation ceremony. So, if you don't take religion, you don't walk across the podium. (This is how it is at my school anyways.)

Although the schools don't tell you that. They EXPECT you take religion, and good luck trying to drop it, your guidance department will give you hell.

And it's not half an hour each day. It's an actual class. For a full period every day, for a whole semester. A complete waste of time and a credit.

i like gym..i judt dont like having to do it in winter and / or spring

Isn't this violating some sort of law? They're, in a way, forcing catholicism on the students, by cleverly replacing the name with "World Religion" and saying it's a class to help people become more "multi-cultural"; Too bad they only spend approx. 2 - 3 weeks on buddhism, a week on Islam, and the rest is christianity, hardly multi-cultural.

Schools biased towards any religion should be eliminated.

I say if you are a serious religious family, and so are the children, then they should be allowed to live / grow up around the people that they can identify with.

Take muslims for example, in any public school there will be some racism going on, this cannot be eliminated. And that will hurt the self-esteem, ect, of these children. (I'm talking elementary, this doesn't go on, at least not in my, highschool).

A solution, is to grow up in an environment that embraces, and nurtures your religion, not descriminates it.

Since in Highschool people tend to be a bit more mature regarding religions, there's not so much of a problem there. For example, all the muslims I know go to their own elementary, but never highschool

... I guess it's just while their minds are still fresh, and they don't want people / society to warp their minds about their own religion until they know it all for themselves and can make an informed decision.

Yes, funding should be cut off from all religiously enclined schools. My belief is that since this has been going on from the olden days, when everyone was a catholic here, and it's sticked as tradition. But let's face it, this is just getting descriminatory. If you come to our city, you'll notice that my school is in all honesty the more architectually advanced school and well funded, where'as if you go to the public highschool, well, like I said... only catholic school here can afford anything relating CompSci.

I say public schools should be the schools that are funded, and nothing else. Any other religiously biased schools should be concidered private schools and stricken from the bill. Public school are just that, public schools. Catholic schools are not, hell, they don't even accept non-catholic students as well, jews pay taxes too, they're in part paying for those catholic schools, so why cant their kids go?

holy shit .... the rant masta templest just got his ranting ass kicked by dan.... holy shit



yea.. children that grew up with other religions and cultures aroudn them are more acustomed to and used to it and therefore their far less racist...

totally agree with that and i know it for fact..
4yo white kid playing with 4yo black kid all their childhood... by the time they are our age they will have respect and all for blacks and wouldn't be racist...

other then that i didnlt rad the resyt cuz its so dam HUGE!!`

I don't mind catholic schools for two reasons: skirts and the elimination of competition. Let's face it, the majority of Catholic schools suck ass. Universities think that they are a joke, so it eliminates a whole bunch of people from the competitive market.