At the school board level, we definitely saw the importance of extracurricular activities for parents, and for children in particular. This year has been a very good example. Naturally, it is very important.
We are lucky to have a great deal of staff available to support these activities, outside of classroom hours and in French. We are also lucky to be in contact with the community as well as with parents capable of expressing themselves in French. All of that is very good and very important. Naturally, the possibility to take advantage of activities here, in the city, or outside of it, is also very significant.
There is now a reality which was not as evident before in our classrooms: that is the importance of the international community. We now have all sorts of technology available to us. At the end of our evaluation of high school level programs, we equipped every high school with computer labs. Indeed, to improve students' language skills, they need access to more than just professors who speak well.
Twenty-five years ago, when I started to teach, the teacher's quality was at the heart of everything. If they spoke badly, we were out of luck, there was nothing else. Now, there is access to technology. It is the children who should speak, and not the teacher. It is the children who should ask, speak, communicate, access resources. It is technology that has allowed us to reach this point.
On that topic, we are launching a partnership with a region in France. In a few of our classrooms, our students will use technology to conduct study projects together. As Calina emphasized earlier, if some teachers' language skills are not perfect, we can develop those skills through other means.