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David’s Blog: There’s no room for this word in Quebec’s schools

David Cohen

Published on March 14th, 2018 at 11:00am EDT Updated on June 29th, 2022 at 11:37am EDT
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Unless you’re teaching a course on black history, the French word “nègre” has no business in an elementary school classroom in 2018. And yet there it was in a grammar exercise at Montreal’s Académie Saint-Clément just a few weeks ago.

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