Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 8175083)

I really wouldn't worry about lack of moral content in Canadian (secular) public schooling. My son is in Grade 1 at an Oakville public (French immersion) school. There's plenty of apppropriate instruction in moral judgements, values etc, taking examples from all walks of life.

To get back to somewhere near the OP's point, my son's school (again, an Oakville public elementary) had their Christmas concert last week. The "junior choir" - effectively all of Grades 1-3 - sang a number of songs from different Christian traditions and from other religions whose festivals happen at around this time of year. From a Swedish carol about Santa Lucia (as I have since discovered, one of very few Catholic martyrs to be commemorated by Lutheran churches in Scandinavia) as the kids processed onto stage carrying little candle flashlights, through traditional Hanukkah songs, to a lovely piece in French about Père Noël. He (my son, not Father Christmas) has at least one Hindu and one Muslim in his class, who both joined in all the songs with gusto, and whose parents were among the most enthusiastic in the audience. Not a hint of political correctness or the sort of inaction-for-fear-of-offending-anyone that the Daily Mail thrives on.

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 8175082)

...no-one changed the names of the schools so you have a 'secular' 'Holy-mother-'t'underin-lord-mary-of-christ-queen-of-whatever' High School. But it's not catholic, oh dear me, no.