Canada’s dumbed-down education system—A social and economic disaster

I am a resident of the Region of Peel, Ontario since I live in Mississauga and have for over 20 years. In the past year it has been decided by the Peel District School board that ALL Peel high schools will be required, during REGULAR school hours, to provide space for Friday Prayers by Muslim students – as far as I am aware no such space is required to be set aside for students of ANY OTHER Faith. What has really stirred things up was the requirement that the prayers said by the students needed some sort of prior approval or that they be standardised and that some portion be in English. This has been attacked as being Islamophobic and a violation of freedom of religion. The Muslim students and their parents insist the students be able to say ANYTHING AT ALL and TOTALLY IN ARABIC should they desire. Without even going into the concerns about turning Peel schools into ISIS recruiting grounds for disaffected teenage Muslim students – because, after all, we KNOW that would NEVER happen – the question becomes why are NON-MUSLIM taxpayers forced to support this use of the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM with their tax dollars. The ‘discussion’ has now descended into essentially all out shouting matches at Board meetings, requiring the presence of uniformed police officers to control troublemakers, and with elected board members who are opposed to this policy receiving email and voicemail threats. I have included a link to the the recent Mississauga News article about this. Included in the article is a short video excerpt form the LATEST board meeting. It is very ‘educational’ to watch it and see what our education system has descended into.

Peel School Board ‘Meeting’