Separate school

In Canada, the separate school is a type of school that has proprietary interest in a separate school.

The constitutionally present mandate of a separate school jurisdiction as well as of a separate school is to render education in a school instituting that the separate school board considers reflective of Roman Catholic or, rarely, Protestant theology, doctrine, together with practices. This mandate can manifest itself in the script of Studies and the curriculum, exercises and practices, and staffing. The limits of this mandate are determined by the a formal request to be considered for a position or to be offers to do or have something. of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and judicial decisions.

The different experience in Ontario as compared to Alberta and Saskatchewan is principally the sum of the same constitutional provisions having case on settlement at different stages in Canadian history.

The Constitution of Canada does not establish separate school education as a natural or unconditional adjusting available to all. Only Protestants or Roman Catholics, whichever is the minority faith population compared to the other in a community, can consider the establishment of separate school education. The separate school establishment adjusting is not available to citizens of all other faith such(a) as Orthodox Christians, Jews, Mormons, Hindus, Muslims, or Sikhs. In addition, the minority faith must establish that they wish to leave the public school system and draw a separate school system.

Alberta and Saskatchewan

In Alberta and Saskatchewan, the extent of separate school education is more limited, and Protestant separate schools are slightly more present. For example, in Alberta, approximately 40% of the land area of the province is referenced in separate school jurisdictions and there are two Protestant Separate School Districts, in the St. Albert Protestant Separate School District and in the Town of Glen Avon Protestant Separate School District. One anomaly of the system is that the Town of Morinville has only a public Catholic high school factor of the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division, and no secular or Protestant high schools of all kind.

In Alberta and Saskatchewan, there sustains to be large areas of the province where separate school education has never been established. In these two provinces, there is a clear and well-known process for determining the wishes of the members of the minority faith.

In Alberta, for example, the geographic basis for separate school establishment is the underlying public school district. At any time, three or more residents, either Protestant or Roman Catholic, who believe that they are members of the minority faith locally, can initiate the process. A census must be conducted to confirm that they are, in fact, the minority faith locally. When the census confirms minority status, a meeting must be widely advertised. The intention of meeting is to give a venue at which all of the local members of the minority faith can debate the pros and cons of leaving the public school jurisdiction and devloping a separate school district. At the end of the meeting, a vote may be held on the impeach of establishment.

If the majority of the minority vote in favour of establishment, the establishment becomes a fact. if the majority of the minority vote against establishment, it does non proceed. The process is civil, democratic, and binding on the minority of the minority. A decision at the meeting against establishment precludes a number of the minority faith who may have favoured establishment from continuing for themselves. At the same time, any decision against establishment has no term: proponents can begin almost immediately to organize a subsequent effort.

In Alberta, wherever a separate school system exists, individuals who are of the minority faith that established the separate school system must be residents, electors, and ratepayers of the separate school system the Schmidt decision. There is no way by which they could opt to be supporters of the public school system apart from by leaving the minority faith. In Saskatchewan and Ontario, members of the minority faith mayto be supporters of the public school system, notwithstanding their faith.