School workers given ultimatum
School workers – mostly women in hijab – have received letters saying they must abandon their headscarves or be fired. But this is hardly news – we knew it was coming.
The CSSDM is about to lose 100 workers.
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Kate
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bob 14:45 on 2026-04-16 Permalink
What a proud day for the racist garbage that runs this government of ours.
And in the French press – nothing. Well not nothing, a positive spin on ridding polite society of Muslim women – https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/education/972275/droit-acquis-elargi-port-signes-religieux-ecoles – “L’adoption du projet de loi 94 visant à renforcer la laïcité dans le réseau scolaire aura-t-elle fait plus de peur que de mal dans les écoles de la province ?”
Just sickening.
dhomas 04:24 on 2026-04-19 Permalink
Quebec has a shortage of anywhere between 4000 and close to 6000 teachers at the beginning of every school year. There are also close to 10000 “unqualified” teachers in the province (usually, people in teaching positions that may have subject knowledge or degrees but no degree in teaching).
Montreal itself is short about 1000 teachers every September. They just added 10% more to that problem.
My kids’ school just “imported” a teacher from France. She teaches, amongst other things, CCQ (Culture et Citoyenneté Québécoise), despite knowing very little about québécois culture (ex: she chastised kids for using the words “dégueulasse” and “wesh”, which are perfectly acceptable in québécois culture). You may think that she just has to follow the curriculum, but the CCQ program is quite new (having recently replaced the Éthique et culture religieuse program) and the teaching support material is pretty half baked.
I’m seriously concerned about future generations.
Kate 14:22 on 2026-04-19 Permalink
Wiktionnaire says wesh comes from maghrebi Arabic, and neither it nor dégueulasse are marked as particularly Québécois French. Odd that she would object to both.
Your kids are facing the same problem I had in high school decades ago. Our French teachers were all imports. The two I remember best were nice people, a woman from Algeria and a man from Hungary(!), but they didn’t speak the language we heard outside in the street. This was a standard big public high school and I don’t know why they wouldn’t let us be taught by people from here.
We have discussed this phenomenon before.