Quebec’s Education Ministry is keeping track of 17 colleges for feasible offenses of the district’s secularism regulation.
According to a declaration from the ministry, it is sending out auditors to those colleges to check them in between today and mid-January
In its declaration Thursday early morning, the Education Ministry stated it obtained numerous problems and records concerning offenses of the secularism regulation, which is typically described as Bill 21.
The ministry states the details it obtained refer to the secularism regulation’s “four principles”: the splitting up of the state and religious beliefs, spiritual nonpartisanship, equal rights, and the liberty of principles and faith.
“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 stated 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 school were put on hold last month for purportedly developing a harmful atmosphere that returns to 2016. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)
Bedford debate
Last month, Premier Fran çois Legault introduced his federal government would certainly look for methods to much better impose secularism in colleges.
The choice was available in the middle of a debate including Bedford grade school, which lies in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges area. The institution was the topic of a 90-page government report checking into the conduct of instructors implicated of developing a harmful atmosphere for both trainees and personnel.
Those instructors, 11 in overall, were suspended and had their mentor permits put on hold also.
The federal government record looked their skills degree, the results of their practices on trainees and personnel, and the duty faith might have played in their practices and the stress at the institution.
Most of those instructors were, according to the record, of Maghrebi beginning. The record additionally mentions that personnel from various other histories were additionally component of the bothersome team– and that personnel from Maghrebi beginning were additionally component of an opposite team knocking their coworkers.
Its suggestions mostly concentrated on ensuring instructors were proficient sufficient to operate in the institution and enhancing the institution solution centre’s capability to keep track of the scenario.
The record additionally stated circumstances where instructors participated in spiritual techniques, like petition or ablutions, though it located that these were mainly done far from trainees and on the instructors’ very own time.
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On Oct 22, well after the federal government record had actually been revealed, Education Minister Bernard Drainville stated an investigatory board informed him it had sufficient proof to recommend that the district’s secularism regulation was not being effectively applied.
Drainville stated the auditors’ searchings for will certainly notify the federal government’s following actions for the colleges concerned and the enforcement of secularism all at once.
Here are the 17 colleges and the institution solution centres that supervise every one. Three of them, Bienville grade school, Saint-Pascal-Baylon grade school and La Voie High School, were currently being kept an eye on before Thursday’s statement.
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Saint-Odile (Centre de solutions scolaire de la Capitale)
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Cardinal Roy (Centre de solution scolaire de la Capitale)
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Henri Beaulieu (Centre de solutions scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys)
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des Saint-Anges (Centre de solutions scolaire Marie-Victorin)
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Jean-Jacques-Rousseau (Centre de solutions scolaire des Mille- Îles)
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Saint-Pascal-Baylon (Centre de solutions scolaire de Montreal)
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Bienville (Centre de solutions scolaire de Montreal)
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La Voie (Centre de solutions scolaire de Montreal)
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École Saint-Justin (Centre de solutions scolaire de Montreal)
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Notre-Dame- de-l’Assomption (Centre de solutions scolaire de Montreal)
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la Dauversi ère-Évangéline (Centre de solutions scolaire de Montreal)
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Mont- de-La Salle (Centre de solutions scolaire de Laval)
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Leblanc (Centre de solutions scolaire de Laval)
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The École d’éducation internationale Filteau (Centre de solutions scolaire des Découvreurs)
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The École polyvalente de l’Érablière (Centre de solutions scolaire des Draveurs)
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Saint-Isidore (Centre de solutions scolaire des Rives- du-Saguenay)
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Saint-Denis (Centre de solutions scolaire des Rives- du-Saguenay)
Last month, a record regarding an instance of feasible religious indoctrination at Alphonse-Pesant grade school in Montreal’s Saint- Léonard district triggered Drainville to require responses from the Pointe- de-l’Île institution solution centre.
That institution was not consisted of in the checklist launched Thursday.
