SCHOOL FOR THOUGHT

Cutting Off One’s Nose to Spite One’s Face

Further to yesterday’s posting concerning the Montreal Jesuit high school, the comments to The Globe and Mail article are quite revealing. Almost to a man, they disapprove of religious schools. Yet, as previous postings have shown, on average religious schools are getting much better results than non-religious schools. For example, there were only two private schools with 100% of their eligible grade 10 students able to pass the province’s literacy test - and both of them were religious schools. Why do people want to get rid of our best schools? I don’t get it.