Friday, December 30, 2005
FRENCH BOARD CLOSES SCHOOL OVER ANGLOPHONE USE
Dec.17, /05
BOARD CLOSES FRENCH SCHOOL, GREEK SPEAKING DIMINISHED, (STATISTICS SHOW), STUDENTS STAY ANGLOPHONE.
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What is wrong with a French school that teaches another language in Quebec?
Is it wrong for this school to have as a majority young Anglophone children, who learn in French comprehensively, while learning, "a mother tongue", (and English). Never mind my rights, would you punish young children and diminish a culture's vitality because they continue their High School education as Anglophones, in a language other than the "Official Language"? It may be that these students will grow up multilingual having a complete fluency with our Language having children with even more (cosmopolitan) complex identities.
As a rural dweller, I would look forward to meeting these people who would enjoy speaking to them in French. Personally, I look forward to the day when Quebecers who are urbain have as a facility their government and a culture, so refined and respected, that its language has become a gateway for opportunity, as well as exchange, for so many other people, around the world.
In my Quebec, I would like to see Germans and Japanese meeting here, in Montreal, because they need the expert translations Quebecer's can create, to their "Official Language", knowing that the translations from it, to English and so many other languages, is just as clear. I would like to see Language an issue of Regional power so that the diversity in our « Official Language » is promoted. I would like to see peacekeepers from Quebec around the world able, more able. I would like to see competition for leadership amongst the sovereign partners of this great confederation we call Canada, with a vision for the cultural mosaic we have always been.
"Pure Anglophones" should rise up and confront the threat against them. And those that are "Pure Laine" should take a look at this intolerance as a threat to themselves as well. Our educational administrators as well as our politicians are taking a very cavalier attitude with our place in the world; or consider how language is used like a ping pong ball at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, bargaining with the Shriner’s, where Anglophones will receive just as excellent care at St-Justine’s. It seems that 19th century ideas were good enough for the 20th century and so too for the 21st.
I am disappointed that my child will not enjoy Ecole Socrates for long, with all the politics fomented around it; and an end to it being a French school, open to all, which teaches Greek as well, to children whose families’ pay additionally for this service.
XXXXX XXXXXXXX,
XILLE XXXXX
Montreal.
BOARD CLOSES FRENCH SCHOOL, GREEK SPEAKING DIMINISHED, (STATISTICS SHOW), STUDENTS STAY ANGLOPHONE.
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What is wrong with a French school that teaches another language in Quebec?
Is it wrong for this school to have as a majority young Anglophone children, who learn in French comprehensively, while learning, "a mother tongue", (and English). Never mind my rights, would you punish young children and diminish a culture's vitality because they continue their High School education as Anglophones, in a language other than the "Official Language"? It may be that these students will grow up multilingual having a complete fluency with our Language having children with even more (cosmopolitan) complex identities.
As a rural dweller, I would look forward to meeting these people who would enjoy speaking to them in French. Personally, I look forward to the day when Quebecers who are urbain have as a facility their government and a culture, so refined and respected, that its language has become a gateway for opportunity, as well as exchange, for so many other people, around the world.
In my Quebec, I would like to see Germans and Japanese meeting here, in Montreal, because they need the expert translations Quebecer's can create, to their "Official Language", knowing that the translations from it, to English and so many other languages, is just as clear. I would like to see Language an issue of Regional power so that the diversity in our « Official Language » is promoted. I would like to see peacekeepers from Quebec around the world able, more able. I would like to see competition for leadership amongst the sovereign partners of this great confederation we call Canada, with a vision for the cultural mosaic we have always been.
"Pure Anglophones" should rise up and confront the threat against them. And those that are "Pure Laine" should take a look at this intolerance as a threat to themselves as well. Our educational administrators as well as our politicians are taking a very cavalier attitude with our place in the world; or consider how language is used like a ping pong ball at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, bargaining with the Shriner’s, where Anglophones will receive just as excellent care at St-Justine’s. It seems that 19th century ideas were good enough for the 20th century and so too for the 21st.
I am disappointed that my child will not enjoy Ecole Socrates for long, with all the politics fomented around it; and an end to it being a French school, open to all, which teaches Greek as well, to children whose families’ pay additionally for this service.
XXXXX XXXXXXXX,
XILLE XXXXX
Montreal.
