TORONTO—The majority of independent schools—schools which operate outside the public system—in Ontario have a religious or alternative teaching approach and don’t conform to the “elite” stereotype, finds a new national study of independent schools released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian policy think-tank.
“Many Ontarians believe independent schools are all elite university-prep schools—but that’s simply not the case,” said Deani Van Pelt, director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education at the Fraser Institute and co-author of A Diverse Landscape: Independent Schools in Canada.
