Religious Affiliation
The B.C. curriculum calls for teaching history of religions and comparative religions.
Schools that avoid being affiliated with a religion or denomination are often called public schools, government schools or neighbourhood schools. In general, the programs offered at these schools may be called secular programs.
Such secular schools have been fully funded by taxpayers since 1872 in British Columbia.
The “away from school” programs that are directed by a School Board teacher through correspondence, distance, distributed and now open learning programs are included in the secular group.
The subject of the 2019 petition, independent but public charter schools, would be included in the secular group.
Schools which wish to have the option of affiliating with a religion or denomination are called private schools or independent distributed learning schools.
Such private schools have been partially funded by taxpayers since 1989 in British Columbia.
Funding has followed the same pattern for online learning: full funding for School Board online learning programs and partial funding for private school distributed learning programs and independent distributed learning schools.
| Type of K-12 School | |
|---|---|
| The Three K-12 Education Environments in British Columbia : | |
| Neighbourhood (School Board) | |
| Private (Most are average) | |
| Private (A few are affluent) | |
| Francophone (Provincial School Board) | |
| Charter (2019 Petition) | |
| School Act Sections 12 & 13 | |
| Online Learning (School Board OL) | |
| Distributed Learning (Independent DL or IOL) | |
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