More than 35,000 people are waiting to sign up for French classes in Quebec.
In Montreal, the Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys confirmed it would cease enrolment for French-language classes at the start of the new session, putting an end to 12 teachers’ contracts.School service centres across Quebec have stopped accepting new students for French-language classes due to financial uncertainty, leaving teachers across the province out of a job.
Quebec's Education Ministry is requiring school service centres not to exceed the funding levels allocated to French-language learning during the pandemic in 2020-21. Facing job loss, 40 French-language teachers at Outremont Adult Education Centre in Montreal — which is under the CSSMB — wrote to Immigration and French Language Minister Jean-François Roberge last week, bemoaning the "dysfunction" of the government's current French-language-learning system.
Stéphan Béland, the head of a teachers' union in Trois-Rivières, Que., said his organization is only teaching about one-third of the full-time students they had last year due to the cuts. Unlike online courses, adult education centres provide a community to students who go on cultural field trips throughout the year with their classmates — from visits to libraries to eating at a sugar shack, the teachers noted.Out of 12 teachers, three have been dismissed and others risk losing several hours of work, Béland said.
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