Advocates for French KV school to meet Carr

Parents who have been fighting to get a French school in the Kennebecasis Valley say the government has agreed to meet with them.

The group had been trying to meet with Education Minister Jody Carrsince he was sworn in and had threatened legal action if a meeting had not been set up by Friday.

"We got a call from the minister's Education office saying they'd like to meet up with us so we are looking at a meeting next Wednesday in Saint John," parent Marc Mathurin said. "So it's very positive. We're glad they're communicating with us and that's what we've been asking for from the start."

The parents have threated to file a challenge under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because francophone families who can't or won't send their children on the 40-minute bus trip to the region's only French school cole Samuel-de-Champlain inthe north end of SaintJohn are in danger of assimilation, they say.

About 50 students from the Kennebecasis Valley attend a satellite school of Samuel-de-Champlain at a daycare in Quispamsis.

Mathurin says the three rented rooms are cramped.