All or Nothing

In Ontario, the government funds not only a public school system but a Roman Catholic School system as well.   Sounds rather magnanimous of the people of this fine province, huh?  Especially since the number of practicing Catholics has dropped so much, it's not in the toilet, it's more flushed out into Lake Ontario somewhere.

But it makes me wonder?  If we are funding the Roman Catholics, shouldn't we be funding absolutely everybody else?  The Jewish, the Buddhists, the Taoists.  The Islamists, Bahai, Hindu, Confusionists, Jainists, Shintoists, the Sikhs...the, the, the....

Phew.  Funny about systemic discrimination.  We don't really think about it.  But it isn't really fair, is it?  We can't fund one religion and not fund all the others.  We would be implying that the only real religion is Roman Catholicism.  That's the one we should trust to teach our children.  You know, the one that is sodden with pedophile priests.  That one.

Hmmm.  On second thought.  What about the 'nothing' option.  Let's not fund any of them at all.  Let's have public education be public and any religious instruction be the responsibility of the parents.

Huh.  Maybe that's too radical....