EDEC 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: De Jure, De Facto

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 247
• Professor: Tino Bordonaro

Document Summary

It also raised concerns among protestants because they felt that it would change the education system as it existed. Union concerned lower canada because they thought it was gonna water down their power as opposed to being separated from upper canada. Everybody hated these recommendations, so the government applied it in very small part. The common school act implies that it is for all. This common school implies that it is a school for all, but it is misleading because it did not. What was established was a common school for the majority and allowed the minority to separate/dissent. The school boards that dissented from the common were called dissentients. To dissent you had to be in the minority. Society was not divided by language, it was divided by religion. The irish at this time arrived and found two schools: protestant and catholic.