(Montreal Gazette) Embroiled in controversy, a private high school in Laval says it has not forbidden students from wearing religious symbols — but it does require that parents request a “religious accommodation.”
An online petition that collected 6,900 signatures over two days this week said Collège Citoyen de Laval had banned religious symbols.
And the mother of a 12-year-old girl who wears a hijab told the Journal de Montréal that someone from the school called the family’s home on Sept. 6 to say that “wearing the veil and religious symbols was prohibited as of Monday (Sept. 11).”
She said her daughter “doesn’t feel accepted, she doesn’t feel welcome at school.”
But Collège Citoyen de Laval said hijabs and other symbols were never banned.
