Talk:Eden High School

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Bible classes and chapel

We have a source (albeit from 2007) that supports the claim that the school "requires students to take bible classes and attend chapel".^[1] An IP has been attempting to change this, first to "the option for students to take bible classes and attend chapel" and now to "offers students to attend chapel" with no Bible classes available at all. Each time the ordinal source has been left in the article and no new source has been provided. I have clarified the claim to specify Grade 9 students (per the cited source).

Can anyone provide a source for what the current situation is? Meters (talk) 18:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Per a 2015 ref the school no longer requires that students attend chapel, and "religious instruction [is] extracurricular and outside the instructional day".^[2] Meters (talk) 19:16, September 21, 2022‎ (UTC)

I've tweaked the content to clarify that the claim is from 2007, but it looks like we need to rewrite and clarify the content wrt the history of religious instruction at this school. Meters (talk) 19:35, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Meters: Thanks for clarifying that. I was just going through some old changes on my watchlist and I agree that this works best. I'll work on that eventually. It's complicated because the school still has a very strong religious influence even if it's not as much as it was in earlier years. I didn't go to Eden specifically, but I lived in St. Catharines for years so I have some interest. It's a bit weird school-wise because even though there's seperate public school boards and Catholic school boards in Ontario there's not really much precedent for Christian/public schools like Eden that I'm aware of. Clovermoss (talk) 18:13, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Rau, Krishna. "Mennonite high school fully funded: The game of political hot potato surrounding Eden". Xtra Magazine. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
^ Fraser, Don (21 January 2015). "Atheist files human rights complaint against Ontario school board". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 21 September 2022.

Other ideas for the clarify tag

Alternatively, without the year, the passing mention of the school board shift in this newspaper article could potentially be used as a source. I don't like how scare information about this change appears to be (at least online) but maybe if I get really lucky with newspaper archives at the city's library maybe I could find something (I doubt it, but it's possible). So far these two sources have been the best I have been able to find for content that directly deals with that clarify tag, even if as I said in the edit summary, a bit iffy. Something the Ontario Ancestors source has going for it is that it seems to be more reliable than the average genealogical source. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 06:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Rau, Krishna. "Mennonite high school fully funded: The game of political hot potato surrounding Eden". Xtra Magazine. Retrieved 15 August 2022.

[2] Fraser, Don (21 January 2015). "Atheist files human rights complaint against Ontario school board". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 21 September 2022.

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