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Petition circulating to change Quebec’s controversial history curriculum

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WATCH ABOVE: A Westmount High teacher is leading a coalition requesting that Quebec expand its high school history curriculum to include minorities. Global’s Billy Shields reports – May 2, 2017

A coalition of educators and parents have started circulating a petition to demand Quebec change its history curriculum.

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They say their main concern is an apparent lack of representation of the Anglophone community, as well as minorities and indigenous people in Quebec’s history books.

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“Children in school today don’t see themselves, their parents, or their grandparents reflected in the historical narrative,” said Carol Meindl, of the Quebec Federation of Home and School Associations.

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“And yet, they have been there.”

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Opponents of the curriculum, such as the Kativik School Board, have come out to say it “repeats a historical pattern of oppression.”

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Westmount High School teacher Robert Green also wrote that it “casts Anglophones in the role of comic-book villains.”

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In a statement, a spokesperson with the Quebec Education Ministry told Global News the current curriculum is a pilot project slated to last until next month, and that Anglophone and Aboriginal groups consulted seemed happy with it.

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The coalition is demanding the province involve more stakeholders when it comes to consultations on future curriculums.

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