From my perspective, one of the challenges is a function of numbers. If you were to hire a science teacher, for example, it would be no different whether it was a science teacher or a math teacher: the money is the same to hire a teacher.
Sometimes with learning French as a second language, when you have small school communities, for example in la Côte-Nord where you have a small student population, there is an element of sometimes having to teach two things at the same time. If you're trying to teach two options at the same time, you reduce the groups and, therefore, you need additional dollars to support the teachers, because you're teaching two subjects at the same time.
One of the factors is to recognize within a minority language situation in Quebec—and I realize that's like walking on eggs from a language and education perspective—that supports are going to have to be put in place so that the English-speaking community will be able to master French, because they need it to graduate high school, quite frankly.
If you have a higher dropout rate because English-speaking students are not learning French, obviously there's a crisis there, and we have to find ways of addressing that.
I'm not here to speak from a school board perspective, but the Quebec Community Groups Network wants to be able to participate in the community with the learning of two languages, as opposed to just the learning of English. Sometimes additional dollars to provide the additional resources are critical, particularly where you have small student numbers.