Kamala Harris went to Westmount High
The Toronto Star tracks down classmates of Kamala Harris from her time at Westmount High and actually, toward the end of the article, finds someone who didn’t like her much. Harris is said to be deciding whether to make a bid to lead the Democratic party in the U.S.
John R 00:37 on 2018-12-31 Permalink
How did Harris get into an English public high school?
Michael Black 01:29 on 2018-12-31 Permalink
Aren’t there exemptions, especially for children of someone here on a contract? They moved here for a specific job, not moved here and then found a job. She certainly didn’t stick around, back to the US on graduation.
Michael
Kevin 05:42 on 2018-12-31 Permalink
She was born in 1964, so would have been in the school system long before any restrictions came into effect.
Blork 12:42 on 2018-12-31 Permalink
I laughed at the one dissenting voice. Basically, it’s someone who felt some shade a million years ago in high school and hasn’t gotten over it.
Mark Côté 12:42 on 2018-12-31 Permalink
Harris graduated in 1981 and bill 101 passed in 1977, so I’m not sure if it would have applied to her or not… I guess it depended on how much school she had attended in Quebec before that. But what Michael said is true: there are many children of temporary workers at EMSB schools. They can make up to 1/3 of some school populations, I’m told.
Randall 13:49 on 2019-01-21 Permalink
She would have enrolled in the english system in the early 1970s before bill101 was enacted.
Michael Black 17:12 on 2019-01-21 Permalink
And now she’s announced her candidacy for President.
The CBC says she was at Wedtmount High from grade 7 through 11, something I looked for before. So she barely got in before the laws changed.
So she barely overlaps with when I was there. But nobody really noticed the grade sevens.
Michael
Philippe 07:55 on 2020-10-01 Permalink
From the time Bill 101 was passed until the early 2000s, any immigrant or Francophone who sent their oldest kid to one year of private elementary school in English could then get the certificate required to switch to public English schools for their whole family. It was a very common loophole. In Kamala’s case though, her mother was most likely on a work permit and therefore classified as a temporary foreign resident and therefore exempt from Bill 101.