The Hampstead Protestant Board of School Commissioners has changed its policy of excluding Jewish children from its elementary school and has agreed to accept any child resident in the suburban municipality, subject to the availability of space in the school and the geographical locale of the child’s residence.
This action was taken after board members heard from a delegation of six representatives of 50 Jewish families of Hampstead. There are about 100 Jewish families in the town. The delegation told the board that the town’s Jewish families were concerned about the education of their children and desired to have them educated in the school nearest to their homes, rather than have them sent to Montreal schools, as at present.
They were also anxious, the parents’ delegation said, to receive a clarification of the board’s policy so that situations which occurred last September would not happen again, In September, when Jewish parents took their children to the school to be registered, some were refused in the presence of their children.
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