No room for ethnic learning in public schools

I thought that you may be interested to know how some school taxes are dispersed to the exclusion of others, based solely upon ethnic learning. Hopefully this is not one of the reasons our taxes are going up again. One thing about Innisfil, you know that every year your taxes increase by 10 per cent. The lack of interest by our Simcoe County District School Board trustee (Donna Armstrong) and the superior attitude of school officials are worrisome. Both of whom seem to be promoting ethnic differences by either their actions or inaction by doing the bureaucratic shuffle (board policy, French department idea, just no reply, etc.). Buses, teachers, paraphernalia all paid out of everyone's taxes, but just for a very few students because of an ethnic difference in their curricula.

Why is there not say a Scottish Highland fling for just those students of that ethnic background, or a Sikh festival? Public schools were not created to celebrate ethnic differences.
John Stevens,
Innisfil