[worldlyhaligonian]

Originally Posted by Acajack

It's not a question of race. "Francophone" for the purposes of schools is fairly easy to define: does the child have a command of the language that is reasonably close to native speaker fluency (for his or her age)?

French first schools are for them. If they are true beginners with little or no prior knowledge of French, then immersion is for them.

As for fear of assimilation, well your indifference is similar to "rich people's problems". It's easy to be laissez-faire with such matters when your culture is the one sitting on top the steamroller.

As a white person I could say that race doesn't matter at all in North America because it's never affected me and if things we left as they are or were, I'd likely end up on top of the heap anyway.

Same goes for sexism and misogyny - from a male viewpoint.

Calice! Where is your data?