If public schools can’t keep Jewish kids safe, why should parents be out of pocket to send them somewhere else?

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“If Jewish students ever needed a secure path to Jewish education, we need it now more than ever.” That’s the basic argument that the group Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education has advanced in court in hopes of changing Ontario’s unique school-funding situation: public boards, English and French, get funding, as do Catholic boards, English and French — but no others.

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It is not going well. On Wednesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court ruling essentially dismissing the case as being a matter of settled law — and thus having no reasonable prospect of success at the Supreme Court of Canada. If Ontario is ever to expand school funding, it seems pretty clear it won’t come as an imperative from the judiciary.

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