Canadian Catholic Schools 

The stereotype is that most Catholic schools were built more recently and have newer equipment and are less run down, given the expansion of their finding in the 80s and 90s. The only other difference is that Catholic schools tend to have much stricter school dances, if any, leading to those kids coming to public school dances to learn how to be awkward around girls with the rest of us.

As a non-catholic I will always defend this system. Public schools having a monopoly is worse for everyone. In my city there is a lot of competition between the Catholic and public schools, with both trying to attract more students in order to receive more funding. Having special schools for catholics in a secular society does not make more sense, but if it provides schools with a reason to improve themselves then I am willing to overlook that.

In America I went to catholic school and it was most definitely better from a catholic perspective, the whole thing was centered around God always

​@@Zachary-ht2so In my experience, in Canada only around half of the students at these schools are catholic. Even the staff, though I believe have to be baptized, lots of them do not practice regularly. Unlike private religious schools, the religious aspect isn't really the reason people enroll their kids in these schools

As always it's the same stereotype in the US according to media, the purported superiority of catholic schools.

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Personally the CRTC or whatever will force Canadian RU-vid to have a "Canadian content and creators section" or whatever and the algorithm stuff will be sort of in the background. If you have been on RU-vid for like forever like me it will probably not affect you that much.

TOO SOON lol

just add that Trudean is very cool and hansome and that you should vote for the liberals and BOOM, Canadian enough to be promoted

LOL

Newfoundland only abolished their denominational school system in 1999. I was among one of the first Protestants to attend MQW what was once and arguably still is a very Catholic elementary school in Mount Pearl as Park Ave Elementary had been demolished that same year. The reason we were so late in doing this being for the same reason as Newfoundland is filled with both Irish and Northern Irish decendants

Lmao my teachers were extremely leftwing when I went too, except when it came to abortion. It was literally like the Giancarlo Esposito "I was acting" meme from Far Cry 6. Night and day.

@@nateh1135 how so? It's good they're against abortion

@@coh2conscript851 They were ardent NDP/Liberal supporters who hated Harper and always pushed the more leftwing "social justice" initiatives and talking points. For example, I literally got into a fight with one of my teachers because I called natives "aboriginals" instead of "indigenous", and this was back in like 2016 lol. All my teachers also loved Pope Francis and hated Benedict XVI, and we all know the political leanings of both. Finally, the teachers always supported their union and had a woe-is-me attitude, even though the Ontario Teachers' Federation is probably the most powerful institution in Ontario, if not Canada, and the average teacher in Ontario was making around $87,000 a year despite having smaller average workloads. Just overall, they were typical urban liberals. Except when you mentioned abortion --- then they sounded like they were ultraconservatives lol. We got the works in our Catholic education on how abortion was bad, all life was precious, and its killing a baby. The complete switch was actually funny to see.

Yeah I went in Regina for elementary and high school, my non catholic school friends ask me what it’s like I said you just get a religion class more on morality and spirituality and small prayer each in exchange for another class. Pretty much still the same.

With the exception of abortion, Catholics have been historically Left wing in the US. JFK for example.

Was rubbed a contraceptive pun?

@@willfakaroni5808 no, not intentionally. RU-vid commenters are more creative than I often give credit for.

When I went to a Catholic High school, most of the teacher were stanch Catholics and it transferred into their lessons all the time, which is unacceptable. Our sex-Ed curriculum was just a bunch of pro-life propaganda, teachers would openly support homophobic/transphobic figures, and they did nothing about the homophobic bullying I faced. It’s time for the Catholic board to be assimilated. It has no right to exist in a modern and secular society. Your religions “doctrine” is a lie that’s caused the death of many queer people.

Catholicism should have one official doctrine. Sometimes priests just don't mentions things, because they cannot go against Catholic doctrine, but silence is a quite toleration (pope Francis is notorious for this, which sparks so many controversies, because his main job should be keeping things unambiguous). So official doctrine of Catholicism is artificial contraception is a mortal sin. So other Catholic schools cannot teach otherwise, but sometime they will not mention it. Catholic doctrine on marriage, procreation, contraception, dignity of human life is quite well defined and rather strict.

Once a month? It was every Wednesday for me. We also had uniforms. I thought it was weird when I switched to public school in 6th grade and was told you can basically wear whatever to school.

@@ASMRDoodlez It depends on the school board, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s catholic schools where students go to church everyday lol

In my experience and from what I’ve heard they do seem a little better than the public school counterparts.

@@AT-nw6cr in my city a bunch of non Catholics or Christians went to Catholic school but years ago they cracked down on it by proving baptismal records or if an older siblings still goes to the same school. I’m not sure who gets more funding if public or Catholic schools do

Yup this exactly, I mean you can come "late" and avoid the church all together.

Don't forget the jewish day schools

We also have a protestant school board because of this law, but there is only one school in the board lmao, so technically 5 public boards. Personally, I'm on team "get rid of publicly funded, faith based education" and bring it down to two boards, one English and one French. But that will never happen, because it's part of our silly constitution (written 150 years ago and is completely out of touch with modern Canadian society).

@@FonicsSuck yep.

I am pretty sure that is only for Toronto. I live in a fairly mid-sized city in Ontario and I think we have maybe just one public French school for the entire region.

​@@tn98544 those are private and theyre talking about public schools (source: i went to a jewish day school)

Yeah a lot of time spent in church/mass that would’ve otherwise been spent doing work.

​@@datchicray We only had mass twice - at the beginning and ending of - every year and it only took up half of our (~1h) periods but maybe our school was just very different lol

@@sire_beandon brutal. We had one every month not including ones held for holidays. And one every week in December for advent.

When I went to a Catholic High school, most of the teacher were stanch Catholics and it transferred into their lessons all the time, which is unacceptable. Our sex-Ed curriculum was just a bunch of pro-life propaganda, teachers would openly support homophobic/transphobic figures, and they did nothing about the homophobic bullying I faced. It’s time for the Catholic board to be assimilated. It has no right to exist in a modern and secular society.

When and where did you go to school? We had mass at least once a month and taught about an 1/7 of our curriculum on religion. One religion. The religion.

I’d bet they have a decent shot under this Supreme Court if they played their case right.

I thought america had catholic schools? Am i just dumb

I think there's a couple Catholic charter schools in the US, which are technically public. Boston has some.

As a catholic I can say no no please no

I live in Portugal and all cities have at least 1 of them. in the past, they were actually free to attend because governments payed the tuitions. I studied in a private catholic school for free. It was actually the best One in the entire area. it is has been for the last 100 years. It was the place where our fascist dictator made his highschool.

Difference is, those are private schools. In Canada we also have all kinds of private schools, some religiously affiliated or not. They get no public funding, and rely on tuition from parents (usually very wealthy ones) to run and make a profit, and often times because of this they are some of the best schools in the nation. Whereas catholic schools here are government funded by taxes, are not ran for profit, and charge no tuition- like any other public school. Only difference is religion class from my experience having been in both the Catholic and Public board in ontario.

The US has this but at a higher level, some of our most prestigious universities (Georgetown, Fordham, Notre Dame) are actually Catholic schools

@@gregoryborton6598 Ontario at least you have to declare whether you property taxes go towards public board education system or the catholic

@@tn98544 Lol yeah, and when I went to catholic school (I only went because it was a legit better school than the public one I was set on going to- I wanted to study music and the public highschool had no music program) my parents basically said fuck you to the catholic board and didn't switch their taxes. Needless to say, the duration of my time there was rather contentious with the administration, given how vocally anti-religion I was.

Yes!

It really comes in handy when discussing things like poorly researched historical movies where people are using things that haven't been invented yet.

@@KasumiKenshirou lol that's so true

I went to a french catholic elementary school and my fav day of the whole school year was going to Roy Thompson Hall to watch the orchestra play.

Up in sudbury no high school offers drivers ed, you have to go to a driving school, I went the the ttcc transport training center of Canada. It was cheaper and better then the rest got me my g2 in 8 months and got me 10% off of insurance

Especially his award-winning ones. (All of them are)

Which school board district mine was the sudbury catholic school board

Not necessarily higher pregnancy rate but a hell of a lot of attention and action. Downside was dirty old men being dirty old men.

Yep same here where I live, well known the catholic schools have higher teen pregnancy rates

@julie-annbell4612 speaking of dirty old men, I am currently in grade 12, my grade 8 homeroom teacher was arrested during the last week of school when I was in grade 11, he was arrested on 5 counts of sexual assault and 5 counts of sexual interference involving someone 16 and under, and the former administrator who had ignored the students who brought it up to him and essentially swept it under the rug was also arrested on criminal negligence, sometimes karma does hit

​@@LUVDlSC they have higher known teen pregnancy rates, because those following their faith don't abort.

I’m pretty sure Brian Lee O’Malley went to Central in London, which is a catholic high school.

@Leon lionhardt When I went to a Catholic High school, most of the teacher were stanch Catholics and it transferred into their lessons all the time, which is unacceptable. Our sex-Ed curriculum was just a bunch of pro-life propaganda, teachers would openly support homophobic/transphobic figures, and they did nothing about the homophobic bullying I faced. It’s time for the Catholic board to be assimilated. It has no right to exist in a modern and secular society.

Lol I went to French Public but not sure how the grades were compared to others lol, what city are you from?

@@Joseph-qd9ew Timmins, ON. We only have 5 High Schools in the city anyway lol 😂

What do you mean by secular? Were they atheists/agnostics or did they simply were non praticsing catholics

This is just stupid

How?

I watched this, and it's kinda comical how JJ acts allergic to French and pretends to have zero Frenchl. I live in the USA, don't really speak Spanish, our main minority language, but there's bits of Spanish that pretty much everyone knows from the larger ambient culture. He comes off as really closed minded toward French or to the idea that there is any benefit or value to Canada not being a monolingual English nation.

>Northern Ireland has entered the chat

That would get shut down quickly in the US

When I went to a Catholic High school, most of the teacher were stanch Catholics and it transferred into their lessons all the time, which is unacceptable. Our sex-Ed curriculum was just a bunch of pro-life propaganda, teachers would openly support homophobic/transphobic figures, and they did nothing about the homophobic bullying I faced. It’s time for the Catholic board to be assimilated. It has no right to exist in a modern and secular society.

I hope it's the cool kind of catholicism. With all of the LGBT acceptance and nice people

I disagree here. Even in western Canada, those I've met who went through French immersion speak French better than your average cereal-box reader. However, it's just that you rarely know they took French immersion because the language is the least useful language out west... apart from reading the back of the cereal box. Spanish, Chinese, Korea, Vietnamese are all just more useful in day to day life. I took French (and loved it, btw) but I still recognize that it's use is quite limited unless you want to hold a bilingual government job.

@@TheNewGreenIsBlue I'll take your word on western Canada as I live in eastern (specifically Ontario) Canada. Here though there is a larger demand for bilingual jobs in a lot of sectors as there is a significantly larger French population in both of the province (especially the northern part and close to the Quebec border) and with Quebec next door. As for the immersion schools the experience here in Ontario that I have with is most say they did not retain or learn much to be considered bilingual.

@@TheNewGreenIsBlue Sorry but America is not only the world. Outside of America, yes french is useful. So stop saying bs that french is useless when you can go in Europe or Africa or Québec. French is way more useful than Vietnam in the world. Si can you stop complaining and saying bs? You can have accès with more things in internet with french and you can communicate un french if you want to use IT.

None of that would have gone though with administration's approval at my American Catholic school growing up, that's for sure. I feel like at my school, if some LGBTQ kids tried to form their own group, the principal would dole out a few suspensions and brace for the lawsuits and internal civil war among the student body, with half the kids supporting the principal (the half that live in the north part of town or out in the country, putting up signs for Republican candidates on their large lawns, driving their Sierra Denali trucks and GLS SUVs to school) and the other half (the rest of us) either opposing it or just keeping their mouths shut about it. The parents would be similarly divided, though with some overlap to account for parent/child political differences. The situation would make national headlines and the school would face so much backlash that the Diocese just quits operating schools in southern GA. I would guess that Georgia is a much different place than Canada.

Well yeah, it's priority listing, but you're not banned from going. I went to Catholic school with a ton of people from different faiths.

Schools shouldn't be taxed because they don't make much of an income you'd just bankrupt them