Quebec’s English colleges say they are being scapegoated for the perceived decline in the vitality of French in Quebec, adding that the new language bill jeopardize student success and compromise the freedom of young French speakers to decide where they go to school
Recent amendments to Quebec’s new language bill are targeting English junior colleges because the schools are increasingly popular among non-anglophones, say students and representatives of the college system.
“We’ve made CEGEPS the scapegoat for the issue of French vitality in Quebec when we all know the real question is, ‘why are more and more young francophones and allophones wanting to pursue their training in English?”’ said Tremblay, president of the Federation des cegeps.Blaming junior colleges, he said, is an attempt to find “a simple solution to a complex problem.”
“This knowledge does not allow them to take a course in philosophy, anatomy or sociology in French and pass it at a level that guarantees them adequate grades to get into university,” he said. “ get far more applicants then we can take and most of the English colleges have grown to overcapacity, so this has become an issue in Quebec and the English colleges have been targeted as the vectors of the anglicization,” he said.
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