The Inter-Racial Committee for Democratic Action is petitioning the provincial government to adopt appropriate and adequate measures to assure that Jewish children be allowed to attend schools in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, “as a matter of right and on an equal footing with the children of other religious groups.”
The petition is being submitted in view of the fact that Outremont cancelled its contract under which it agreed to educate in its schools the Jewish children of that locality. A one year’s extension has already been granted, but on June 1, 1946, Jewish children of Outremont will once more be barred from the schools unless the government finds some remedy for the situation.
Although Jewish children outnumber the non-Jews in the Outremont schools and the tax derived from Jews is greater than that received from non-Jews, under the present educational laws the Jewish children do not attend the schools “by right” but as a matter of grace. The school authorities in Outremont claim that they are incurring heavy losses in educating Jewish children, but this is disproved by the fact that the taxes paid by Jews are three times greater those that paid by Protestants.
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