The need for the Quebec Government to give assistance to Jewish day schools in Montreal, as a solution to the rising costs of education, was noted in the annual report delivered by Ben Beutel, president, at the 27th annual meeting of the United Talmud Torahs of Montreal.
“Parochial education is often an unselfish sacrifice on the part of parents anxious to impart Hebrew religious education to their children,” he said. “We are constantly striving, because of the cold fact of constantly rising costs in education generally, for some financial assistance from the Provincial Government.”
Mr. Beutel noted that, although 3,000 children attend Talmud Torah “out of the free choice of their parents, ” their secular education “would otherwise have to be absorbed out of public funds. ” The report welcomed the recently-proposed legislation by the Quebec Government to increase to $350 per year the statutory subsidy for each child attending a recognized private educational institution on the secondary level.
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