Quebec’s Education Ministry is preserving 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 examine them in between immediately and mid-January
In its declaration Thursday early morning, the Education Ministry said 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 small print it obtained confer with the secularism regulation’s “four principles”: the splitting up of the state and non secular beliefs, non secular nonpartisanship, equal rights, and the freedom of rules 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 said 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 college had been placed on maintain final month for purportedly creating a dangerous ambiance that returns to 2016. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)
Bedford debate
Last month, Premier Fran çois Legault launched his federal authorities would definitely search for strategies to significantly better impose secularism in faculties.
The selection was out there in the course of a debate together with Bedford grade college, 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 creating a dangerous ambiance for each trainees and personnel.
Those instructors, 11 in general, had 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 responsibility religion may need performed of their practices and the stress on the establishment.
Most of these instructors had been, based on the document, of Maghrebi starting. The document moreover mentions that personnel from varied different histories had been moreover element of the bothersome workforce– and that personnel from Maghrebi starting had been moreover element of an reverse workforce knocking their coworkers.
Its solutions principally focused on guaranteeing instructors had 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 said circumstances the place instructors participated in non secular methods, like petition or ablutions, although it situated that these had been primarily performed 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 said an investigatory board knowledgeable him it had adequate proof to advocate that the district’s secularism regulation was not being successfully utilized.
Drainville said the auditors’ searchings for will definitely notify the federal authorities’s following actions for the universities involved and the enforcement of secularism .
Here are the 17 faculties and the establishment answer centres that supervise each one. Three of them, Bienville grade college, Saint-Pascal-Baylon grade college and La Voie High School, had been presently being stored an eye fixed 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 college 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.
