>Sauron1 wrote; "Totally off topic" The Canadian papers are full of
recent
>test results that show grade 9 Canadian school children are totally
lacking
>a clear understanding of Canadian History after 1900,s. The can tell
you
>about Slavery but not mutch about Canada at that time, except we had
lots
>people emigrating from Europe. How do yours do?
>
> sauron1
>
In France, the school program before our main exam (Baccalaur�at)
concentrates on the two World Wars (Hey! Two more abreviations WWI
and WWII) and on the 4th and 5th Republics.
French schoolboys and schoolgirls know a lot of things about the two
WWs but all becomes vague when you speak about the 4th Republic. In
general they know that the 5th Republic comes from G�n�ral De Gaule
and the names of the 5th Republic Presidents since Pompidou but
that's all... Algeria and Indochina wars are not well known.
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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