To some, the iron grip and monopoly on public education of the Greater St. Albert Catholic School Division may seem archaic and anachronistic.
The Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ attempt to have the Alberta Human Rights Act rewritten to give Catholic boards the ability to exempt themselves from having to provide non-religious options may seem Draconian, even Kafkaesque. Stretching a little, you could even say it smacks of Soviet-style repression and conformism.
But that is glass-half-empty thinking. On the bright side, can you imagine the predicament for education had the founders of the area long ago been Holy Rollers, or, uh, Druids?
Doris Wrench Eisler, St. Albert
