hihi, i am a HKer and is likely to move to Montreal next year with my kids. I am checking on schools in Montreal at the moment.
Could you share more on how kids with zero knowledge on French are doing in French public schools? Besides French class, are other subjects taught in French? If so, how kids can pick up the class?
My kids are teenagers and I worry that their integration to new school life are more difficult than the young kids.
Thank you!
Hi
The first thing we need to understand if you come here with working visas or as immigrants?
We're here with working visa, so we are eligible to send kids to English Schools which is 50% English and 50% French.
We've sent them to French school for the first 6 months, then we decided to switch them to English schools.
I'd say kids learn Languages fast just like a sponge, to us is all about the child's health mentally/ psychologically, not academically. So it depends on your focus.
If you enter Quebec as immigrants, you could only apply for English schools if:
1) You or your family or the kid's sibling have attended English schools in Canada,
2) You are on working visa
3) The child has been coded/certificated by medical practices that he or she is unable to attend a French school.
I do have some friends here apply for English school while seeking the move to other provinces after landing here or just keep extending their visa to obtain the eligibility.