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Public schools: We found out that we definitely qualify to send our daughter to the English public school system, since my husband is Canadian and did at least five years of his schooling in Ontario. I'll be speaking with an admissions coordinator on the English Montreal School Board hopefully this afternoon to ask her questions about registration (mainly, can we register after the formal registration period, which seems to be around the first week of February for the school year that begins that same year?). Most of the public schools (at least in the EMSB) have French Immersion or Bilingual (English/French) programs, so I'm also going to ask the coordinator how competitive it is (or is it even competitive at all?) for a kindergartner to get a place in one of those programs.
This may very well be true, but take what the school board tells you with a small grain of salt, even if they presumably have a lot of experience with this type of thing. They are not the ones who decide - the Ministry of Education is.
True, written French is more difficult for French-speakers than written English is for English-speakers. It is really quite simple when you analyze the language - French can be "half-spoken" (ie. ils parlent sounds just like il parle but they are singular vs plural, whereas he speaks and they speak are fully pronounced).
In French, context is so much more important and you can't "guess" a lot of spelling in French like you can in English. I can write better French than my francophone friends, and that is because I have had to study each word whereas they grew up "knowing" the words but not necessarily the spelling.
I have another question regarding the EMSB requirement of the majority of primary schooling in English in the rest of Canada. What is considered primary/elementary school? Up to 6th grade or up to 8th grade? I realize there is a Canadian citizen requirement too, but trying to explore all options.
I have another question regarding the EMSB requirement of the majority of primary schooling in English in the rest of Canada. What is considered primary/elementary school? Up to 6th grade or up to 8th grade? I realize there is a Canadian citizen requirement too, but trying to explore all options.
Primary (elementary) is usually K-3
Middle School is 4-8
High School is 9-12 (11 in some provinces)
All years may be off slightly from province to province or from district to district within a province.
In Quebec, elementary school is kindergarten to grade 6, there's not such thing as middle school, and high school is grade 7 to grade 11 (then there's CEGEP which is why there's no grade 12).
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