Canadian supreme court rules school board wrong to ban books

News From Canada where A British Columbia school board was wrong to ban three books depicting same-sex parents from kindergarten and first grade classrooms, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled. In a 7-2 ruling last year, the Supreme Court said the ban imposed in 1997 violated British Columbia law that requires the government-funded school system to be strictly nonreligious.

They said the school board was \”letting the religious views of a certain part of the community trump the need to show equal respect for the values of other members of the community.\”

January 9, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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