French Presidential Election

[Tristuskhan]

Perhaps I didn't make it clear: I didn't mean LEARNING those languages. I meant other subjects (maths, geography, history, chemistry, etc.) TAUGHT in those languages. Are there such schools that do it?

You did make it clear and I answered. Breton-speaking schools (Diwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwan_(school) ) are private, breton in the public schools is at best third language, if not absent.

We had something here called the "Welsh knot". It was a piece of rope the teacher hung around a child's neck for speaking Welsh and the only way to get rid of it was to report another child for speaking Welsh.

Same thing in Brittany, if I remember well it was a horseshoe (but I'm not 100% sure). The kid who had it at the end of the day had to clean the classroom. The was also a sign telling "it's forbiden to speak breton and to spit on the ground" in the schoolyards. Charming.
Welsh are a great inspiration (and it's the sister tongue, after all). We just wish their music was less confidential!

Maybe one day France will enter the modern age.

France is also still waiting for her neighbours to enter the modern age by getting rid of their kings. Nothing is full bright or full dark, PFH!
Language policy in France is awful. We have to live with it.

France seems to be producing a lot of money-related scandals right now. Apparently Sarko has to stand trial, and then there's this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...b0a1dcbd02dd33

Well the VIP quarters of the Prison de la Santé in Paris are ongoing modernization, I heard saying.