Religious symbols should be worn in the home or in a place of worship only. They have no place where the wearers have control over impressionable children or represent the government. J. Bakker, ...

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MONTREAL - An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the province’s law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols.

Meanwhile, a union representing school support staff denounced the plan to expand the religious symbols ban, saying it would worsen an existing “recruitment crisis.” ...

And no school had more than five employees who wore a religious symbol. “There are very, very, very, very few people who wear religious symbols in Quebec schools,” the minister said.