CEGEP (was: Re: Question for British list members/PS for Goddlefrood

[Mary Ann Jennings]

Carol:

> And wouldn't most schools in Quebec use French as
> the primary
> language, or are they all bilingual?
 

Sheryll:

>Interesting question. Not sure how it is now, but
>there were definitely places where you could get your
>education completely in English back then. Not as much
>now.

Mary Ann:

>From what I understand, in order for a child to attend an English-speaking school in Quebec both parents must have attended English-speaking schools in Quebec as well.  In 1976 (I think) Bill 101, one of the whopper French-language bills, came into being under the Parti Quebecois, the then-ruling provincial government party.  I had started English elementary school just a few years earlier, so I was OK.  I was born in Quebec but my parents immigrated from the Netherlands, so I'm not sure if I would have had to attend a French school had I been born a few years later.

Mary Ann, taking a break from spring cleaning the house