How to participate
Participate in upcoming activities
Parents in action for education invites you and your children to kick off the Declaration. Come and meet parents from all walks of life and neighbourhoods. Our hopes for our children will be a uniting force.
Friday, February 22, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
(Facilitation in English and French)
3535 av. du Parc (between Milton and Prince-Arthur streets)
5 minute walk from Place-des-Arts metro, de Bleury exit, North
For more information: 514 279-0423
Download the poster and the detailed invitation.
To share your ideas on Declaration for equality in education’s text and circuit across Montreal and to contact the Declaration Work Group, click here.
To support children speaking up on their right to education and to contact the MicroMacro Work Group, click here.
To help the 2007-2008 Solidarity Campaign and to contact the Fundraising Work Group click here.
Discover key moments
Dans cette section vous retrouverez nos meilleurs moments.
May 6th 2006
Black Youth and the Right to Educational Success
For too long, stereotypes and prejudices have been used to dismiss challenges that black children face in schools. Black communities and education activists know that the kids aren’t the problem. Many have looked for ways to change the schools. Recent research on black children and educational success in Quebec will help take this work a step further.
Parents and community members, speak up! To say out loud what’s been kept silent. To strengthen our ability to make sure that each child gets the quality education that is their right.
In addition, read Educational Success among High School Students from Black Communities from the series Different Angles on Education and Social Justice.
February 23rd 2006
A school in our image?
Popular Forum on the Role of Identity in Education
Regardless of where we come from or which social groups we belong to, schools ask us to change our habits, our ways of seeing and doing things. However, for all children to feel accepted and to have good chances of success, school must change too.
Do the school reflect our different identities (languages, styles of language, cultures, values, gender, ...)? How do we make sure that schools truly take into account different facets of our identities? What steps do we take to make sure that schools reflect who we are?
Join us at the Popular Forum “A school in our image?”, with parents and community members working towards greater social justice in education.
In addition, read Linguistic Diversity and its Place in Our Schools from the series Different Angles on Education and Social Justice.
November 12th 2005
I’m a person, not a label!
Popular Forum on Labelling in Schools
In order to better meet their students’ individual needs, teachers and education professionals evaluate and diagnose children who are having difficulties in school. Families have mixed feelings with the results — some say that instead of improving their child’s chances of success, the diagnostics serve as a screen that keeps the school from looking at their child as a whole person.
Considering the increasing number of children being diagnosed, more parents are wondering how to bring schools to support all their children’s developmental needs. What changes can we ask for from the public school system to address this issue? Come think of alternatives with others who are preoccupied by the quality of our public schools.
April 27th 2005
Are our schools really colourblind?
Popular Forum on Discrimination and Racism in Education
Generations have mobilised so that society and its various institutions are open to all people regardless of colour, ethnicity or religion. There have been many victories, yet discrimination and racism remain a very real part of everyday life for too many people in our society. Public schools are no exception. How do we recognize racism and discrimination in the education system?
What are its effects on our children and on our society? How can we tackle these issues effectively, as individuals and as communities? To learn more and to share your experiences, join us at the popular forum “Are Our Schools Really Colourblind?”. Meet parents and community members working towards greater social justice in our education system.
In addition, read Antiracist Education in Quebec: Diagnosis and Prognosis from the series Different Angles on Education and Social Justice.
January 15th 2005
No money, no degree?
Popular Forum on Equality in Education
Do Montreal schools treat all children equally? In all levels of society, parents share the wish of seeing their children succeed, and put a lot of energy towards that goal. Why then are results so different at the finish line? What school practices contribute to inequality? Do all parents have an equal chance of seeing their children succeed?
Parents have vision and expertise that gain to be recognized. This forum is an opportunity for parents and for all other people interested in issues of social justice in education to come and have their voices heard. Together we will define what equality in education really means and afterwards use this definition to add a parent’s perspective to the ongoing public debate on education.