Thank heavens somebody is talking sense on the fragmented publicly funded schools.  It's high time that Bill Davis's folly to give funding to Catholic high schools was rolled back. To remove funding from Catholic elementary schools would be a bonus, despite the fact that it was enshrined in the British North America Act.  My son played rep basketball about fifteen years ago.  The out of town tournaments were held almost exclusively in Catholic high schools.  These were veritable palaces compared to his midtown public high school, which more resembled a gothic horror movie set than a learning institution, with its falling acoustic ceiling tiles, broken lockers and bathroom cubicles with missing doors. Why did this happen?  Because after 1985 so much money was siphoned out of the public school system to fund Catholic high schools and the parallel administration to the public high schools.  If Newfoundland can kick churches out of education, there is no reason Ontario can't!