SOCA02H3 Lecture : education
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St. leonard riot recognized as turning point in quebec history. Bill 101: french is language of public administration, businesses w/ 50+ employees should operate mainly in french. Bill 101 ensured that in quebec, children of immigrants be required to receive primary and secondary schooling in french. Before the riot: 90 percent of children in the public schools were neither english nor french speaking background, st. leonard school board had in influx of italian residents in 1963. In 1976 when parti quebecois won their first election, they enacted bill 101, and immigrants" children were restricted to french schools by law Education has displaced organized religion as the main purveyor of formal knowledge. Education is second most important agent of socialization. A century ago most ppl in the world did not attend school. Creating systems of education that had sufficient resources to include all children was a social change of breathtaking scope.