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Many private schools are not subsidized at all so I would say wealthier francophones certainly can, yes. There are also some bilingual private schools which offer enough French and are heavily subsidized, so they are more affordable for working class francophones. Although my children qualify for the public English schools, I prefer sending them to the private bilingual school (well, trilingual actually). Better access to special services.
Many private schools are not subsidized at all so I would say wealthier francophones certainly can, yes. There are also some bilingual private schools which offer enough French and are heavily subsidized, so they are more affordable for working class francophones. Although my children qualify for the public English schools, I prefer sending them to the private bilingual school (well, trilingual actually). Better access to special services.
Aliss2 makes a good point about subsidized vs non-subsidized private schools.
The subsidized ones have no restrictions on attendance based on language either. But they get subsidies because they follow the Ministry of Education's program to the letter - generally an enriched version of the program in regular public schools. Because of the subsidy generally it costs between 2500 and 3000 dollars to send your kid their for a year.
The unsubsidized ones are often run by particular ethnic and religious groups. They also have guidelines and curricula to follow from the Ministry of Education but it's not as stringent as with the above private schools. These schools generally cost from 8000 a year to upwards of 20000. There are no language-based restrictions on these either.
If the pq had its way, would they be forced to sent them to a french school?
There has not really been any talk of this.
One thing the PQ has tried to address is a loophole that allows some people to get around the rules for public schools. Basically, in one part of the rules it says that if a child has been to school in English in Canada for "most of his or her schooling", the kid can go to public schools in English in Quebec.
So what some parents have done is start their kids in English private school (paying the $$$) for one year only. Then they say that this is most of the kid's schooling (if they have just started school), and then claim the right to English public school for the rest of their education.
But this loophole has I believe been addressed and you can no longer really do this.
Odd that the French government of Quebec would give all those educational choices to resident Anglophones including the Various degrees of French immersion schools but restrict its own Francophone demographic to French school only, unless they want to pay for English private school.
My kids like yourself came through their schooling fluently bilingual to the point you'd have to ask them if they were English or French.
In todays global economic/busness market it seems a step backward for the Quebec government to handicap its younger generations in such a manner.
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