morals, socialized, and made important decisions with respect to their identification as Catholic or Protestant.28 However, the decline in identification and discrimination along sectarian lines in Scotland has rendered obsolete the policies institutionalizing schools as Catholic or Protestant. While Scottish Catholics once faced great oppression and felt compelled to ensure the education of their youths, matriculation in Catholic schools has dropped, forcing closures and raising considerations of integration. Indeed, nearly fifty percent of Scottish Catholics surveyed in 1997 believed that the policy instituting separate Roman Catholic schools should be phased out.29
VVAs the very group that a multiculturalist policy was created to protect has disavowed said policy amidst changing patterns of societal identification, a flaw in Wolterstorff’s impartiality interpretation relative to Audi’s separation principle is revealed. If the multiculturalist education system’s relevance is bounded by societal shifts over time, other critics of multiculturalism must be weighted more heavily. For example, if a policymaker were to consider Okin in this situation, that person would be compelled to consider the worth of the trade-off of standardized individual education—and the potential benefits it provides to the disempowered—for a bounded number of years benefiting an increasingly less relevant religious group. While these are not the only considerations to make, the policymaker would then, justifiably, be far more compelled to institute a liberal education system that would protect and empower individuals from the beginning.
VVConsideration of mandated daily religious observance periods in the context of the changing Scottish religious landscape yield similar results for multiculturalism. While this policy is distinctly less related to sectarianism than the above division of schools, the trend in Scotland away from religion occupying a large role in individual’s morality and personal lives and toward
88828. See: Bruce, et al, 31, and Paterson, 221, 223.
88829. Paterson, 222.
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