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The nickname as self-determination

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Yes she is, & don’t you forget it.

When my daughter started kindergarten in the french-language system, her school was a subsidiary unit of a larger one, and thus known as “Annexe Anne-Hébert” — but just a few months later, after the holiday break, we voted to become an administratively autonomous school in our own right. What better way to teach the yo…

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