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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font><br></font></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: <span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"></span></span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"><span class="gI"><span name="Isaac M. Davis" class="gD">Isaac M. Davis</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a></span></span></span><span><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a></span></span></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Education" 2012.09.12 (02) [EN]</span></font><font><span></span></font><font><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></font><font><span><span></span></span></font><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span><span><span><font>From: <span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font><font><span><span><span><font><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Edwin Alexander">Edwin Alexander</span> <span><a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">edsells@cogeco.ca</a></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"></span><span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"><span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Education" 2012.09.11 (02) [EN-NL]<br></span></font></span></span></span></font><br></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
On 12/09/2012 1:22 AM, Roger wrote:
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is a strong increase of Dutch kids being registered
transborder in Belgian primary and middle schools.(cf. URL below)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Same holds at the French-Walloon border.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is there a similar transborder exchange at the US-Canadian
border?</span></div>
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Not at all. The real issues here are internal to Quebec, which has
just elected another "separatist" provincial government. Right now,
there is no chance that a referendum for separation would succeed, but
people, so I'm told, were fed up with the previous government, which
had suffered a number of scandals during its long tenure. Nonetheless,
the new government is saying that they will further restrict French
speaking citizens from attending English speaking educational
institutions. You can well understand the desire for the Quebecois to
receive an English education as this is a global phenomenon, so you may
see an increase in people sending their kids to boarding school in the
US if they can afford it. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>I
don't know about Québec families sending kids to school in the US (and
in fact, I highly doubt that would happen outside of an extremely small
group of very affluent Anglophones, living in Upper Westmount), but in
western Québec, which is very rural, very bilingual, and so strongly
opposed to separatism that French-speakers don't even identify
themselves as 'Francophone' (which has become something of a buzzword),
but rather as 'French', it is quite common to pretend that kids,
particularly of high school age, live with relatives on the Ontario side
of the border, so they can go to school in the nearest Ontario
community, in this case usually Pembroke, Ontario. I think for
convenience's sake, they'll live with said relative during the week,
during the school year, and the rest of the time, they're back home in
Pontiac County. This has been going on for years, though, and has to do
with the general neglect the area receives at the hands of the province,
rather than any recent nationalist developments.<br><br></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Isaac M. Davis</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lower Westmount, Québec<br clear="all">
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-- <br><br>"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."<br>—Abraham Lincoln</span></div>
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