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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.francais
Subject: Re: Sault Sainte-Marie officiellement unilingue anglophone
Keywords: Sault Sainte-Marie Kapuskasing
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Date: 8 Feb 90 02:42:11 GMT
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One of the problems with the school law was the discrimination based on
the parents' education.  There should be no such special status.

I think the language of education should be up to the school board, with
a mandate to provide whatever language of education the parents paying
the taxes prefer.   It should not be a province-wide decision.  As long as
there are enough students of type X to warrant a school of type X in a
board, there should be one.   That means some number of French schools here
and English schools there, and any parent can send their child to any
school they like, within reasonable transportation limits.

The law as enacted was a nyah, nyah to those wanting english education to
a greater degree than the law in Sault Ste. Marie is a nyah, nyah to
Quebec.
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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473