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- From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter)
- Subject: Re: Access denied?
- References: <1993Jan21.185109.19103@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.085404.271@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:54:04 GMT
- Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
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- From article <1993Jan21.185109.19103@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, by laviers@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Cocotte Minute):
- > In article <1993Jan20.153913.4802@seachg.uucp> chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan18.140817.28475@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >>>Posted: 18th January, 1993
- >>>
- >
- > [lotsa good stuff coming from the american hat deleted]
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > My point is: Ontario (and I assume the other anglo provinces) has always
- > been behind Quebec in it's treatement of lingual minorities.
- >
-
- "He did it first!" or "He did it too!" are not justification. :-(
-
- > One BIG "BUT":
- > The problem, is that I would like to send my kids (when I get some :) )
- > to engligh kindergarden here in Quebec, as a franco (under 101), I'm not
- > intitled to a choice.
-
- That is the issue. It isn't the language of instruction that is the
- problem it is the denial of choice.
-
- > 101 and 178 should not prevent a choice of language, but should ensure
- > the PRESENCE on french in quebec.
- >
-
- A compromise: Don't restrict choice of access but require French proficiency.
- Require ALL immigrants to be registered in French school _OR_ in a French
- immersion program. There is still an argument that some degree of choice
- would be denied but it addresses the concerns of French proficiency in
- Quebec without forcing English children (and others) into French schools
- against the will of the parents.
-
- I haven't met anyone who would have a problem with that except close-minded,
- intolerant 'nationalists' (who would prefer that English totally dissappear
- in Quebec anyway?)
-
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- ||| Steve Potter: steven@spxtech.qc.ca |||
- ||| Expertise/Experience: Computer Systems Engineering / Real Ale / |||
- ||| Politics in Education in Quebec |||
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