clarinews@clarinet.com (hewitt/standard broadcast news) (02/02/90)
(TORONTO) Yesterday was the deadline for the report of an inquiry into religious education in Ontario. The report was commissioned a year ago. However, the study by Glenn Watson, former director of education in Brant County, is now expected to be submitted to Education Minister Sean Conway early next week. A spokesman for Conway guesses that it will be made public a month or so after that. Watson's inquiry was set up a few months after a court ruling in September, 1988 that the Lord's Prayer couldn't be given ``primacy'' in Ontario's public schools. His report becomes even more topical, in light of a recent court decision that public schools should not teach religious courses that indoctrinate.