The Montreal Catholic School Commission announced today that immediate steps will be taken “to offer the population residing on the Island of Montreal, under certain conditions, classes or even schools which would be described as non-confessional.”
The announcement stated that the Commission adopted a resolution at its last meeting, last month, to take such a step in order to recognize the “rights of certain children who cannot find in existing schools an answer to their aspirations.” According to the announcement, the Commission decided to give “top priority” to the establishment of nonsectarian schools and classes which “would surely be ready for next September according to demand and need.”
Meanwhile, Jewish residents in the suburbs of the Town of Mount Royal and at Hampstead protested against being left off the voters’ lists being prepared there for elections to the local Protestant School Board, scheduled for June. While Jewish children attend Protestant schools in those suburbs, no Jewish names were included on the lists. Delegations of Jewish residents from the two suburbs consulted the Canadian Jewish Congress here before voicing their protests.
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