From here:

The Coptic Orthodox Churches in Toronto are threatening to withdraw 4,000 families from the Toronto Catholic District School Board if it does not amend its controversial equity policy to protect Catholic teaching in the schools.  According to one expert in Ontario education, if the threat were carried out, the board could lose upwards of $40,000,000 in annual public funding, and over 150 teachers.

If the board implements its policy, wrote Fr. Jeremiah Attaalla on June 22nd, “we will not hesitate to withdraw our children at once from attending any Catholic school within Toronto or [the Greater Toronto Area].”

The equity policy, passed earlier this year as part of the Ontario government’s sweeping equity and inclusive education strategy, has sparked an unprecedented mobilization of parents who fear that it will give homosexual activists a foothold in order to further subvert already weak Catholic sexual teaching in the schools.

The Canadian separate school system has always been one of – well, inequality. Why should Catholics have a state funded school system when evangelical Christians or Muslims have either to send their children to a secular, increasingly anti-religion school, or pay to send them to a private school in addition to paying taxes to fund public schools?

That isn’t the inequality that could be the undoing of the Catholic school system in Canada, though: it is the hellish “equality” that demands the levelling of human values, particularly sexual values, to the point where copulating with just about anything, animate or otherwise, holds equal significance as raising what used to be thought of as a normal family.

And the Toronto Catholic school board, wishing to protect its government funding, is acquiescing to this.

It seems to be backfiring, though: perhaps the school board should have stuck with its principles and inequalities.