School board head calls students leaving French system in Halifax 'an emergency'
•CBC News
Data obtained by Radio-Canada shows that about two-thirds of students who attend École Mer et Monde in south-end Halifax leave the French school system after Grade 9. The executive director of the French school board calls it an emergency. "We are watching as…
Seventeen-year-old Maia Lee is an exception to the trend. The north-end Halifax resident was educated at École Mer et Monde, a P-9 French school in south-end Halifax, until Grade 9. For high school,…