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Paperback, 64 pages
In Canada, with the Province of Québec leading the way, a secular public school education is being sacrificed to accommodate a religion which considers schooling where its revealed scriptures are not given precedence as blasphemous. Can two incompatible value systems be accommodated within the public school system and the inevitable clash between reason and unreason avoided? Will the politics of accommodation lead to peaceful co-existence, or simply allow Islam to recruit in a place that was previously off limits? Teach Your Children Well looks at the long term implications of reintroducing the teaching of religion in the public school system, and the granting of exceptions to the general curriculum for religious reasons, using the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Reasonable Accommodation and the report of the Advisory Committee on Integration and Reasonable Accommodation in the Schools (2007) as a starting point. Contents Foreword - Children Under Siege God in the Canadian Charter of Rights Observations on sex and violence in the Koran as an incentive to read Teach Your Children Well. Should the Koran be for Adults Only? A Muslim-Canadian writer on how to resist the assaults on a secular public education: Just say no [to demands for exemptions], and remember, that when someone steps on your toes, it is not you who should apologize. A world-renowned Islamic scholar expressed similar sentiments in an interview he gave on Québec radio. I have included his words of wisdom in Teach Your Children Well. About the Author Bernard Payeur is the author of Canada – The Fractured Nations Interviews which examines, in a series of interviews with people from varied walks of life how Canada became a historical footnote and Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice, The Complete Layman’s Guide to the Koran. He is presently working on a companion book to his layman’s guide to the Koran tentatively titled Going Swimming Fully Clothed, A Layman’s Guide to Islamic Law.
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It is both a truism and a cliché that children are the future. Where that future will be shaped is in the classroom.