St Joseph’s Catholic High Schoo - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 12 Feb 2023 23:53:23 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg St Joseph’s Catholic High Schoo - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholic school cancelling teen for religious views not the answer https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/02/13/catholic-school-cancelling-teen-for-religious-views-not-the-answer/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:53:28 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=155480 In what could be a watershed opportunity in Canadian history, a lawyer is trying to marshal compromise instead of cancellation with a view to getting 16-year-old Josh Alexander back in school. But so far, no luck. Alexander was suspended from St Joseph's Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario. The teen asserted in class that there Read more

Catholic school cancelling teen for religious views not the answer... Read more]]> In what could be a watershed opportunity in Canadian history, a lawyer is trying to marshal compromise instead of cancellation with a view to getting 16-year-old Josh Alexander back in school.

But so far, no luck.

Alexander was suspended from St Joseph's Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario. The teen asserted in class that there are only "two genders." This offended some trans students, and he was suspended and then arrested when coming back to the school.

"I tried to sort it out," said lawyer James Kitchen. "We had without prejudice negotiations with the school and there was just no budging."

When I heard this, I thought this was a positive for both sides. Sit down and talk. Find a solution.

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