A hundred people rallied yesterday in a demonstration is on Saturday in front of the town hall of Kastell-Briant. The French education services recently refused to open a bilingual
education class at the René-Guy Cadou public school in
Kastell-Briant/Châteaubriant in Brittany. This project is supported by
parents, by the municipality as well as several parliamentarians. 15
students are even pre-registered for September.
The conditions are thus met for the development of Breton language teaching in Kastell-Briant. It is indeed essential that a teaching of Breton in schools is proposed at the level of all municipalities of Brittany and it is quite legitimate that such a sector can exist in a commune of 12 000 inhabitants. This is without counting on the obstruction of state services that hinder the teaching of Breton and try to make the Breton language disappear.
The Breton language must be taught in schools when a social demand exists. The Kastell-Briant project is not the only one to have been rejected in Loire-Atlantique this year. It is the same in Guérande.The collective Ai'ta! denounces linguistic discrimination. This would be an unacceptable situation in a democratic state in Western Europe.
The conditions are thus met for the development of Breton language teaching in Kastell-Briant. It is indeed essential that a teaching of Breton in schools is proposed at the level of all municipalities of Brittany and it is quite legitimate that such a sector can exist in a commune of 12 000 inhabitants. This is without counting on the obstruction of state services that hinder the teaching of Breton and try to make the Breton language disappear.
The Breton language must be taught in schools when a social demand exists. The Kastell-Briant project is not the only one to have been rejected in Loire-Atlantique this year. It is the same in Guérande.The collective Ai'ta! denounces linguistic discrimination. This would be an unacceptable situation in a democratic state in Western Europe.
