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Hear No Evil

Charles Oliver | 12.7.2011 6:00 AM

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Montreal schools have ordered teachers to monitor students' conversations during meals and at recess and other breaks in class to make sure they are speaking French. If they hear them speaking anything other than French, teachers are supposed to remind that what language to speak.

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