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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><span name="Isaac M. Davis"></span></span></span></span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"><span><span name="Isaac M. Davis"><span class="gI"><span name="Edwin Alexander" class="gD">Edwin Alexander</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca</a></span></span></span><span><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a></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 class="gI">LL-L "Education" 2012.09.12 (03) [EN]<br><br></span></font></span><div class="im"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
On 12/09/2012 4:28 PM, Isaac M. Davis wrote:
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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></span>
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Very interesting. We sent our daughter to French immersion here in
Hamilton, but do you think we could get her to speak it around here?<br><br>
Ed Alexander</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br>----------<br><br><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><span name="Isaac M. Davis"></span></span></span></span></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"><span><span name="Isaac M. Davis"><span class="gI"><span name="Edwin Alexander" class="gD">"Anja Meyfarth" <<a href="mailto:aurinel@spray.se">aurinel@spray.se</a>></span><span class="go"></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 class="gI"></span></font><font><span class="gI">LL-L "Education" 2012.09.12 (02) [EN]<br></span></font><br><font><span class="gI">As a matter of fact there is a new discussion going on. When you send
your child/ren to a danish school it means that you see yourself as a
part of the danish minority. So parents are expected to learn danish as
well (that is what keeps some parents away from danish schools). The
danish school association has a policy that, if you take one child out
of the danish school, siblings have to leave, too. It is now in the
discussion that this policy has to be stopped.<br>
As the SSW (the party of the Danish Minority) is part of the cabinet in
Schleswig-Holstein, it will be interesting to see how that will
influence the education system here.<br>
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Greetings from Kiel,<br>
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Anja Meyfarth<br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Education<br>
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A while back there was talk about many Germans sending their children to
Danish schools because of the supposed excellence of the Danish
education system.<br>
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Is that still going on?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></span></span></font></div></div></font></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span class="gI"><br></span></font></span><div><div><div>
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