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- From: CZ94 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
- Subject: Re: Access denied?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:26:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.185109.19103@IRO.UMontreal.CA> laviers@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Cocotte Minute) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.153913.4802@seachg.uucp> chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask) writes:
- >
- >[lotsa good stuff coming from the american hat deleted]
- >
- >> A great deal of talk and debate (and action) in the 'English'
- >> provinces about meeting the needs of the French-speaking members of
- >> the population. Just recently one of the big news items in Ontario
- >> was the need for more French school space, and I believe the space
- >> was alloted (I may be wrong, but the point remains). Everything I
- >
- > It's all a question of proportions... Ottawa, for example, which
- >has always had a very big franco population, has never had a public franco
- ^^^^^^
- >school before 1979. When Francojeunesse school was founded, I went there for
- >one year in 1980. The quality of French being taught was pitiful: the
- >teachers even made serious grammar mistake in our report cards.
- >I still don't know if there are any more public franco schools in
- ^^^^^^
- >Ottawa, a part from that one.
-
- What do you mean by "public" in this context? In Ontario there are
- _two_ publicly-funded school systems, usually called "public" (i.e.
- non-denominational) and "separate" (i.e. Roman Catholic). Since
- most Franco-Ontarians are (nominally) Catholic, and this was even
- more true in the past, I would expect that most French schools would be
- in the separate school system, not the public system.
-
- A French public school board was set up in the Ottawa region a few
- years ago. I hope they have more than one school to administer.
- There are lots of Ottawa residents on the net. Perhaps one of them
- can give us an up-to-date account of the number of French schools
- (public and "separate") in the region.
- >
- >My point is: Ontario (and I assume the other anglo provinces) has always
- >been behind Quebec in it's treatement of lingual minorities.
- >
- Tom Box
- CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA
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