I was surprised to read Lauren Den Hartog's article "Morinville parents argue for secular education," Dec. 15 Gazette.
It seems unfathomable that there are still areas in our country where a particular religion is being forced upon students at a young, impressionable age. Yet in Morinville there exists the propagation of Catholic religious beliefs with no accommodation for families who have different or no religious affiliations.
The comments of Trustee David Caron, that the Catholic school division has existed for 148 years, before there even was a province of Alberta, have no grounding in the reality of our multi-cultural society. Using Caron's reasoning, we should all be on our farms, churning butter and milking cows.
It is clearly time for the school division to come into the 21st century and address the rights of all to an education, regardless of whether a person is Catholic or not.
Siobhan McClelland, Toronto, Ont.
