Rick Taves1: I think your missing the point here. The Catholic school system is quite prepared to accommodate the non-Catholic students in these small rural communities. But it appears the public school boards in some small communities and rural areas feel threatened by the loss of their students and funding to the Catholic system as this steadily erodes the viability of the public system. I think the Saskatchewan government is doing the correct thing by putting the immediate needs of the students first. That being said, governments across the country should examine the continuing viability of maintaining parallel publicly-funded, religiously-based school systems, especially in areas where enrolment numbers can't justify doing so. Quebec and Newfoundland have wisely chosen to change this. Personally, and philosophically, I favour a secular school system, and I'm a Roman Catholic.