Laval family wants answers from the education ministry

Posted By: Laura Casella · 9/28/2012 9:09:00 AM

A Laval family tells CJAD it is confused because after securing access to English education for their daughter, their son has been denied. 

Mother Nazneen Alavi is a permament resident of Quebec. She attended English elementary school and high school here, and her 7-year-old daughter is following suit also attending an English school with the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board.

But this year, when it came time to register her son for Kindergarten, she hit a road block.

"I got a call in the middle of August that since I am not a citizen, my child has been refused," she says, "but my daughter is already in school, so I was a bit confused with the situation." 

She says she has since written to the department at the education ministry that deals with these cases asking to accept him on  humanitarian grounds. She still has not heard back. 

Alavi says she feels rejected because she has been here for twenty years.

"It would be a different story if I was a refugee," she says, "but this story just doesn't make any sense."

As for her 6-year old son, she and her husband have decided to keep him home until the situation is resolved. 

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  1. MTL Maniac posted on 09/28/2012 09:34 AM
    welcome to the Facist regime of the PQ
    1. BDG posted on 09/28/2012 10:07 AM
      @MTL Maniac Decision was made BEFORE the PQ came into power so who is the ''Facist regime'' ??
    2. geo posted on 09/29/2012 11:43 AM
      @MTL Maniac Ridiculous comment. A typical example of emotion overtaking fact.
  2. BDG posted on 09/28/2012 09:43 AM
    While the situation is particular your son is not being denied an education by the government. You are denying your son an education by keeping him at home.
  3. RykE posted on 09/28/2012 09:48 AM
    Biewnvenue to the Peoples Republic of Québec. Let the games begin. Expect to see a lot more of these type of antics from our very own PQ.

    This is very much like an employer who wishes to get rid of an employee, but instead of dismissing the employee and having to pay severance, the employer makes the life of the employee unbearable to a point where they quit.

    You will also note that the accommodation of the English language by Francophone Quebecers has diminished. Whereas many Francophones in Montreal would converse in either language, as of the election, the switch to French only has become more common.

    Brace yourselves, many voted PQ as a vote against the Liberals, now we will have to live with this situation for the next few months, until the next election is called.
  4. Gordie posted on 09/28/2012 09:57 AM
    Yes...keep your son at home `til this problem is solved ...because once he gets into the french system its har er to get out.
  5. Mia posted on 09/28/2012 03:51 PM
    In my opinion, I believe maybe if you let your child be placed in a french school and If you spoke english at home, he will be able to pick up on both languages, which will further his success in life because then he can break the gap between the French Vs. English or English Vs.French, However you may see it. Also teaching him that it is not which language you speak that makes you a better person but how you look at a particular situation with optimism and humanitarianism. Instead of holding your child at home like he is some kind of hostage, or sending him to a school he may not want to attend, either side is not in the right. however if you don't look at things in a different light, we will never learn to move forward. & and we certainly need to start teaching our children as young as possible how to think and not what to think. He knows what's going on here, and he is probably confused as to why he can't just go to school. However if he does want to go to an English school he should have the right.
  6. geo posted on 09/29/2012 11:38 AM
    I heard the interview the mother had with Aaron Rand yesterday. He asked her why she didn't consider getting her citizenship here after 20 years. She replied that she couldn't have a dual citizenship so she chose to keep her Indian citizenship instead. That was something she should have given more thought. But keeping her child out of school is irresponsible - She actually admitted she is not home-schooling her child. So now that kid is getting the worst of one bad decision after another. Now all of the sudden, she wants to get her citizenship because she has to.... she should have though of this before. It's too late to put the seatbelt on AFTER the crash. And for all of you who think this is due to the "regime" of the PQ, you are mistaken. The mother is denying her son an education. Period.
  7. Diane Philip posted on 09/30/2012 11:29 AM
    Are not the rights of a landed immigrant.. permanent resident a Federal issue? Thankfully I got my citizenship years ago.. but no one advertises what you are losing by staying a landed immigrant.

    Dippy
  8. Naz posted on 09/30/2012 02:30 PM
    Geo**thanks a lot for listening to my interview...the topic Is not about being a citizen or not...I pay the same taxes as a Canadian citizen...so I should get an equal right...and about my son being home well since the government doesn't care why should I get him confused in sending him to a French school when her sister is going to an English school.ince 2 years he had Ben waiting to go to John f Kennedy with his sister, he also met the teacher a couple of times and he is so anxious to go to school.ahe is at home but I try my very best to teach him what they teach him in the begging of school, he knows all his alphabets/numbers.no parent would want a kid to stay home and not educate his child.about the pq no one mention about Tustin the interview and that has nothing do with this.because the discision was taken before the elections how can we blame them? So plz don't confuse this.its just a bizarre situation because one kid is going and the over cant.thats it:))
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