Caves… again.
There is something out there that does not like the Roman Catholic Church operating its own System of Schools and I fear that the day is quickly coming when it will exist no more.
I say this in spite of the fact there is a constitutional basis for its existence. My fear is that society would lose since the Catholic system is a far superior to the public one run by the Provincial Government; scholastically it outperforms the provincial system by a wide margin, it instils morals and values in its students and these results combine to attract students from all sectors of society including large numbers from the ethnic communities.
And dear reader, it spends only $8,000 per student annually compared to the provincial boards annual average of over $12,000.
I have said many times that what the province needs to do is give vouchers to parents – e.g $10,000 per student and let the parents decide where best to send their children. You would quickly see the provincial run system shape up as well as see true competition for the education bucks allocated to our children.
But sadly we are talking power here – power for the teachers and their unions and Provincial Government - so the likelihood of this happening is most remote.
But I am getting away from what I started writing today about … i.e the cave-in.
Over the past few weeks, a Separate School here in Ottawa has been entangled in a media frenzy over denying two of its grade 6 students from doing a school project on homosexuals and how society discriminates against them. If completed, the project would then be presented by these two students to children in grades 4, 5 and 6. Quite young all things considered and surely there are more age appropriate things to occupy their young minds.
But in the face of such opposition, the Board caved and let the presentation proceed.
And bear in mind, that the Roman Catholic Church finds homosexuality to be abnormal; although it does not though believe homosexuals to be either bad or of lesser value.
And I share the Church’s opinion.
I believe, as does the Church that our society is best served when a family consists of a mother, a father and a child(ren). Indeed, until very recently, that has been society’s position for millennia. It is just been with the coming of the 2,00s that our politicians stopped proclaiming this from the mountain tops.
Boy what a difference a decade or two makes.
But the traditional family has been under attack for much longer than that. Today American stats show that over 70% of Black Women have children out of wedlock – with multiple fathers. This breakdown has led to millions of Blacks dropping out of society into a life of crime.
Even with white society this number has climbed to a third.
A question for you – do you think society is better off in the face of this development?
Nor do I.
And now we layer on ‘marriage’ for non heterosexuals.
I may be wrong but I cannot help but think society will be poorly served by this latest development.
Maybe for the last many hundreds of years humanity got its priorities all wrong when it came to marriage and the rearing of children.
I doubt it, but maybe I am just being an olde foggy here. But one thing is for certain, there is much at stake here and, for better or worse, future society will be dramatically different from the way it was in 1960 and how it is today.
And it is not very likely the Roman Catholic School Board will be part of that future.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
