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

David Cohen
Published: March 14, 2018

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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