*To be completed only if associate board is supervising Home Education
Section 23 Francophone Education Eligibility Declaration
Section 2 (1) of the Student Record Regulation states that:
The student record of a student must contain all information affecting the decisions made about the education of the student that is collected or maintained by a board, regardless of the manner in which it is maintained or stored including
(s) if the parent of a student is eligible to have the student taught in the French language pursuant to section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a notation to indicate that and a notation to indicate whether the parent wishes to exercise that right.
Pursuant to Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
Citizens of Canada
- whose first language learned and still understood is French; or
- who have received their primary school instruction in Canada in French have the right to have their children receive primary and secondary instruction in French;
- or of whom any child has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in French in Canada, have the right to have all their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the same language.
In Alberta, parents can only exercise this right by enrolling their child in a French first language (Francophone) program offered by a Francophone Regional authority.