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Should Government-owned schools have names connected with Christianity?
Dear Editor,
Recently , I have read in the press about the rebuilding of three schools among others ,namely, Christ Church Secondary, St. Georges and St. Mary’s High School and it begs the question as to why in this day and again a secular Republic, these schools cannot be renamed with neutral names to reflect the Multi religious country we live in.
As regard St. George’s, it seems that the land on which the school was built on belongs to the Anglican Church but our Government is funding the entire project why is this so? In this case if my previous assertion is correct the land should be transferred to the State. I recall that the Swami Purnananda School built largely with funding from the Hindu Community was renamed Cove and John Secondary school after it was taken over by the Burnham led government, in this vein maybe Christ Church can be renamed as the Camp and Middle Street Secondary school!
Editor, it Is widely known that the Majority of the Government owned educational Institutions are managed and Administered largely by persons of the Christian Faith who invariably seek to indoctrinate and convert non-Christian Children and bring them into the “flock.” The names of these schools only add to the psychological pressure that Hindu and other children face while attending same and hence I strongly believe that the time has come for these State-owned schools and others with names indicative of a particular religion to be suitably renamed.
I look forward to requisite responses from the Ministry of Education, the Ethnic Relations Commission, The Inter-religious Organization and Parliamentarians among others. It is time that this egregious anomaly remnant of our Christian-oriented Colonial Heritage is corrected.
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Persaud
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