28 November 2011

Canada News: Montreal-area board considers making French mandatory in schoolyards - thestar.com

Canada News: Montreal-area board considers making French mandatory in schoolyards - thestar.com

MONTREAL—The Quebec government is reacting favourably to a plan by a Montreal school board to ban any other language than French from its schoolyards.

Culture Minister Christine St-Pierre says the French-language Commission scolaire de Montreal would be making an important effort to promote Quebec’s majority language.

“I think that children who attend school in French must obviously speak French among themselves,” she told reporters at the provincial legislature on Wednesday ...

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