Alberta independent Christian schools face defunding threats from public unions, teachers

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/alberta-independent-schools-face-defunding-threats-from-public-unions-teach

DMONTON, Alberta, March 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — An alliance of Alberta’s public sector unions, public school boards and teachers has called for the defunding of the province’s 225 independent, mostly Christian schools that educate 34,000 students.

“Public funding for education should be focused on building the best public, Catholic, and Francophone school systems possible,” said Joel French, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, the left-wing lobby group leading the attack. “Private schools in Alberta receive some of the highest subsidies in Canada, while core government campaign promises in education remain unfulfilled. We need a change of priorities.”

Reducing funds going to the private system will go a long way toward lessening the financial burden on families and recommit support for the public education system,” added Carolyn Blasetti, executive director of Support Our Students Alberta.

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The socialist NDP government is also embroiled in an ideological fight with Catholic and Christian schools. It has joined the international movement to use schools to normalize same-sex relationships, gender fluidity and transgenderism.

So far, this has taken the form of forcing Christian schools to allow homosexual clubs and “trans” students who are males biologically to use female washrooms and change rooms. However, the government is also engaged in a multiyear project to rewrite the entire curriculum to favor sexual minorities and indoctrinate the next generation of Albertans.
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