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"I can‘t really say. I don‘t like the line up this year. Last year was much better. I haven‘t thought much about it beyond how it affects me personally." The price we will all pay if this proposal proceeds is too high. There‘s the social cost of segregating children according to religious beliefs and the discrimination that may foster. There‘s the real cost â€" how can a board continually lamenting its need for more money, to build new schools, fix old ones and offer the programs required by society, seriously contemplate operating alternative schools? Where do you draw the line when other groups appear with similar requests? Kitchener trustee Mike Ramsey says he‘s rethought the group‘s request and will challenge it when it comes before the board Thursday. Other trustees should follow his lead. This is too dangerous a precedent. You Said It But, why should they be? In our multicultural, multiâ€"religious country, publicly funded boards of education have no business preaching one religion. The provincial education ministry has been clear on this issue â€" guidelines set out this year state taxpayers‘ dollars must not fund religious indoctrination. The board may teach religion, but not practise religion â€" they may teach all religions, but not one. These are the people who warned that full funding of Roman Catholic schools would prompt other ethnic/religious groups to ask for their own schools. It‘s happened â€" here in Waterloo region about 280 Christian school m“zpomrs have asked the Waterloo County Board of Education for a publicly funded Christian alternative school. And the board is listening â€" they‘ve voted to relay the group‘s request to the Ministry of Education and ask that "alternatives to the public education system must be found." The Christian parents say they want to keep their children in a public school, but are concerned about the education their kids are getting and that Clm’stiaq vglt_xes and beliefs are not being taught. There must be a lot of people out there chuckling and thinking ‘I told you so.‘ PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1990 Dangerous precedent Opinion Keith Moore Waterloo ~ "I think that it‘s great. I have friends coming in from out of town. We have lots of tourism in October because of Oktoberfest; this brings people in in the summer. s s u. Pm o ‘ C p a w d ‘ €; Th 9 ‘;’ Ni ¢ 4 e “?‘i $ ' 3 }; 3 fke e s $ ” k e P ’“ wl f i3 ‘ fik oc ... $ t € P3 4 g i y 4 g F E "t / + ; uc o Cafole i2 1X nc fls x: S io. WB 4.3 s §5" * e s . . Oe Ns 9 c €3 t " p k 3 k $ ® l a y “? p t 9e w % & o R @ o s ya i; i 8. J 4 es Nora Davis Waterloo How does Waterloo benefit from the Sounds of Summer festival? ‘"It‘s great because it brings in tourists and gives people someâ€" thing to do in the summer." Helmut Kakoschki Kitchener "I had a really good time last year. It brought me out to the park. It‘s nice to see people getting together and doing things in the park. I‘m going back this sumâ€" mer." Michele Krzewski Waterloo "It attracts people from other cities who come to see the bands, and the things in the park for all the kids are great." Samantha Vaugn Waterloo