After the Mountainview School Division decided to move forward with having "God Save the King" in their schools on a daily basis, the province is looking to close the rule that allowed for that to happen.
Amendments to the Education Administration and Public Schools act have been intrduced in the Manitoba Legislature that if passed into law, would eliminate the little-known rule that had not been enforced in decades, but was recently revived by some MVSD trustees.
The bill also ends a requirement that the Lord’s Prayer be recited.
Mandatory prayer in schools was struck down by the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench in 1992 but the rule has not been formally removed until now.
The proposed law would also require all school boards to have policies respecting land and treaty acknowledgments — something most already have in place.
It also enshrines the province's new school nutrition program.
