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Kate 08:56 on 2019-11-25 Permalink Reply  

• Jack 16:45 on 2019-11-25 Permalink

  But not in the Banlieues….only the rural areas.

• Brett 17:50 on 2019-11-25 Permalink

  Paris and Toulouse aren’t rural.

• Blork 15:18 on 2019-11-26 Permalink

  And why are we short on teachers? Would that exodus of hijab- and turban-wearing teachers have anything to do with it?

  (OK, probably not that many, but my point is rhetorical.)

• Jack 16:01 on 2019-11-26 Permalink

  @ Brett you didn’t get that reference?
  @ Blork Dont kid yourself that number is higher than most people think.
  From what I have seen the teaching profession tends to attract second generation immigrants very prominently. Their folks see it as a step up in social mobility and prestige. It is a profession where generally speaking economic networks have nothing to do with entry, it’s not investment banking.
  By the 3rd or 4th generation teaching isn’t viewed with that level of prestige and it’s very rare to see an upper class kid who went to Selwyn or LCC heading into the teaching profession.
  So I believe that segment of the population has been hit hard and it breaks my heart.

• david100 18:21 on 2019-11-26 Permalink

  ^Well, it’s not like anyone is forcing them to wear a burka or whatever. “I’d love to be a teacher, but the country I’ve moved to has made it clear that it doesn’t want it’s teachers to be visibly fundamentalist religious types, as it could normalize that fundamentalism” isn’t a heartbreaking situation, it’s a decision by a person to take the fundamentalism over the job.

• Jack 17:34 on 2019-11-27 Permalink

  david 100 yeah when I see a kippa or a hijab I immediately say those folks are “visibly fundamentalist religious types” who could “normalize fundamentalism” just like that fundamentalist Jagmeet Singh.
  https://ricochet.media/en/1965/jagmeet-singh-elected-as-federal-ndp-leader