Re(2): Public and parochial Schools

Martin Owen (Martin_Owen who-is-at rem.bangor.ac.uk)
Mon, 24 May 1999 11:02:15 +0100

If I read Tane right, schools in Canada are monglot, althouygh you may
study the "other language" as a subject (ie there are no public schools
which teach science using the Hebrew language in Alberta).

I am interested in public bi-lingual education ie my kids didn't just
learn English and Welsh, but they studied other subjects in one or other
of the languages as a matter of course. As an example, my daughter studied
German as a Welsh speaker and studied French as an English speaker.
Locally, the reason to opt for private education is to opt out of
bilingualism.

Belgium takes parochialism to the most extereme. There are ( I think)
four ministries of education: Protestant Dutch, RC Dutch, Protestant
French, RC French.

Martin