Critical to delivering a quality well-rounded education is the free dissemination of all material. When a few "high-minded" folk decide what is and what isn't appropriate for the curriculum of an educational institution, that student bodies access to material is shaped not by the challenge of discriminating minds but by the willingness of a few to direct and control thinking.... Hardly the climate of intellectual availability one would hope to find in an "education system".
Catholics or any religious group anxious to hide part of the world and glorify other parts of the world aren't educating, they're conditioning. If Catholics are happy to follow in the footsteps of the Taliban and other religious fanatics in demonstrating how fragile their philosophy actually is, that reticence to openness and critical challenge will produce the same results as the radical Islamists of the Taliban. The issue isn't that the Taliban are soooo bad, the issue is that the minds of children will be shaped and sculpted to particular views that don't accurately reflect the nature of the world in which these youngsters will make their way.
If the Catholic school had made an issue of gratuitious violence and sexuality as its depicted in a great deal of television broadcasting, or even could manage to identify the decades of abuse and continuing lawlessness of the Roman Catholic Church in protecting abusers from the law, then a message that's balanced and invites critical thinking could perhaps flourish.
But the Roman Catholics like the Taliban don't want to juxtapose their behaviors and prejudices beside anything remotely akin to free-thinking that a book or program originating in the mind of an atheist might represent. These folk don't care any more about the truth than they care about personal and community responsibility.
Give me a break....what a load of crap! Your first sentence is BS all on it's own. There isn't an educational institute on the planet that allows "free dissemination of all material". There are always standards that are observed to determine if something is "appropriate".
Your second paragraph, obviously you have no real knowledge of what is taught in the Catholic schools. I'd suggest you find out before you shoot off your mouth or STFU if you're too closed minded to actually find out. The school curriculum is determined by the province, NOT the school board. The only difference between the Public system and the Catholic System when it comes to actual curriculum taught is that the Catholic system also has a religeon course that is manditory for every grade and is required for graduation. Otherwise the same things are taught when it comes to the sciences, social studies, math, and L.A.
The Catholic faith does have a problem with gratuitous violence on telivision. It's outside the CSB's mandate to make public statements concerning what the kids do or see outside of school. That is upto the parents, the individual parish's, the diocese, etc. Also, the RCC was not and is not the only faith that had problems with abusers. Yes, what the differnt diocese did to try and cover up that abuse was wrong, and they have been "cleaning up" that disgusting problem.
As for your insinuation that "athiests" are "free thinkers", I would say that from your little rant above proves that hypothesis wrong.
