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The sale of about three hectares of land on the grounds of Lansdowne Middle School for a new French school has been approved. The Greater Victoria School Board is selling the land to the Conseil . . .
But the lease expires this year and the Greater Victoria district plans to reclaim the building and reopen it next fall to deal with increasing enrolment and space pressures. Beausoleil parents say their children are being treated like “second-class citizens” and will be moved to modular classrooms at Braefoot Elementary until a permanent francophone school gets built. And they say that flies in the face of a Supreme Court of Canada decision last year that found francophone students are entitled to “an education experience that is substantively equivalent to the experience of the majori...