The Quebec government might extend its ban on religious symbols to members of school staff other than teachers.
Education Minister Bernard Drainville says he wants to strengthen secularism in schools by passing legislation on gender equality and on expanding the scope of the religious symbol ban for public employees.
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A report published Friday on 17 schools accused of not abiding by the province’s secularism rules notes that employees including school daycare workers and speech therapists are not covered by the ban, despite being in contact with students.
The report also says the rule against teachers wearing religious symbols is not always applied.
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It found that teachers sometimes speak in languages other than French and that students in one high school were covering their faces with a veil and a medical mask.
The province’s secularism law, Bill 21, prohibits public employees such as teachers and police officers from wearing religious symbols on the job.
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