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CONFESSIONAL SCHOOL [2 records]

Record 1 2016-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Institutions
DEF

A school financed and controlled by, or otherwise associated with, any religious body and providing religious instruction ... to some or all of its pupils.

OBS

confessional school: term used particularly in Canada for a denominational school, usually one associated with the Roman Catholic Church.

OBS

parochial school: a school maintained by a religious body usually for elementary instruction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
DEF

École qui donne un enseignement religieux, en plus d'offrir un programme d'études complet.

CONT

En plus d'offrir des écoles françaises et anglaises, le système scolaire québécois offre à la population un réseau d'écoles élémentaires et secondaires confessionnelles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
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Record 2 2013-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
OBS

The term "dissentient school" is used in Quebec.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
CONT

Caractère confessionnel des écoles dissidentes. [...] Les écoles [que les corporations de syndics formées par les minorités religieuses d'une municipalité scolaire] administrent sont les seules écoles de la province à n'avoir aucun caractère commun. Les seuls enfants qu'elles sont tenues d'accueillir sont ceux qui appartiennent au groupe religieux auquel elles se rattachent.

OBS

Le terme «école dissidente» est utilisé au Québec.

Spanish

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