[Alex Murphy]

The oversupply of qualified, unemployed teachers in Ontario has been a well-documented problem. According to the Ontario College of Teachers, there were about 12,200 new teachers in the province in 2009, but only about 5,000 positions....

....“I haven't gone for my, um, what do you call it the bread thing yet...Communion. I'm nervous about it,” she added.

Even some non-practising Catholics have said they are returning to the church — trying to wriggle their way into the Catholic board....Under the rules for the Toronto Catholic District School Board, all teaching personnel and others who work directly with children need to be Catholic.

Related thread:
Catholic schools want your tax dollars. Real bad.....

Under current provincial law, when a person moves, the address he/ she moves from automatically reverts to a public school-supporting ratepayer. And the address he/ she moves to doesn't become designated as a Catholic school supporter unless the occupant fills out a form to change it. It's commonly called the default mechanism. "Because of the default mechanism, those numbers [of Catholic ratepayers] continue to decline," said John Stadnyk, the Huron-Superior board's director of education....the number of Catholic ratepayers in their jurisdiction determines the number of trustees who can be elected....

[SnakeDoctor]

You should’ve made this a Protestant Caucus thread. Haha.

SnakeDoc

[Pollster1]

Unemployed, non-religious educators are turning to Catholicism in an attempt to secure a coveted teaching position, even it means lying in confession about whether they've had pre-marital sex, some have revealed . . . "I haven't gone for my, um, what do you call it the bread thing yet...Communion. I'm nervous about it"

I'd like to hope that those who turn to the church for other reasons would stay for the grace and the goodness, but I have my doubts when it's done from a position this dishonest. I have no problem with Jewish teachers who are really Jewish teaching my children, but if someone lies in confession and takes communion thinking it's just "the bread thing", I don't want them around my children.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The person who says she lies is the perfect person to teach “Ethics”./s

[markomalley]

I guess one good reason not to live in Canada (or at least Ontario).

[MrEdd]

Why would any religious school even consider hiring a recent convert, rather than a mature and grounded adherant?

[kidd]

During her first confession, she crept into a dark confessional box...

Don't you just love the imagery that the liberal media provides?

This article is trying to push the following:
It is torture for the Catholic Church to require Catholic teachers to be Catholics. Thus, the Catholic church should do away with its dark ages restrictions and let anyone teach to Catholic children.

[Grunthor]

“Jobless, non-religious teachers to turn Catholicism in attempt for employment”

I believe that secular teachers will find themselves quite comfortable in catholic institutions.