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Subject: French schools in Ottawa (was Re: Access denied?)
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:47:53 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Cocotte Minute) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Chris Blask) writes:
>
>> 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.

I had a look in the Ottawa phone book, under "Conseil scolaire
de langue francaise d'Ottawa-Carleton.  Listed there under
"Secteur catholique" are 36 elementary, 2 intermediate, 4 secondary
and 2 specialized (i.e. alternative and adult) schools.  Under
"Secteur publique" are 7 elementary (including intermediate) and
8 secondary (including adult and alternative) schools.  This gives
a total of 59 publicly-funded French schools in Ottawa-Carleton.

A reminder that Catholic schools are publicly funded in Ontario.  In
that province, "public school" can have two meanings, either "non-
private" (i.e. publicly-funded) or "non-Catholic" (i.e. non-denomina-
tional).  When Sebastien says there were no public French schools in
Ottawa before 1979, I suspect he's using the word "public" in the
sense of non-Catholic, rather than publicly-funded.  Given that
most Franco-Ontarians are Catholic (at least nominally) this is not
too surprising.
>
>My point is: Ontario (and I assume the other anglo provinces) has always
>been behind Quebec in it's treatement of lingual minorities.

True, but the French school system is expanding in Ontario, while the
English system is contracting in Quebec.
>
Tom Box
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