About a hundred parents waited in line outside the Calgary Islamic School on Friday morning for a chance to get their children enrolled.
The private school — which teaches kindergarten to Grade 11 — has room for about 20 new students next year, officials said.
But since it's the only school of its kind in Calgary, which has a Muslim population of about 60,000 people, parents line up outside in the cold for a chance to register every year, said principal Moussa Ouarou.
He added that the waiting list already has 300 names on it.
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