The real question, though is: Are the students learning [a] better, [b] equal to, or [c] worse, than if theyâd had a âqualified instructorâ?
Because if itâs âaâ or âbâ, then âstop looking for a new teacherâ. Software is way cheaper than salary + benefits + pension
In Quebec?
I guess there will be a new skilled worker immigration category this year.
Oh, Québec.
You should see who theyâve got teaching geography.
Your use of scare quotes around âqualified instructorâ indicates you have some doubts about the methods used to distinguish those with skill from those without skill. At the same time, your question as to whether the students are better or worse off is phrased in the form of a multiple choice exam. indicates that you believe that the methods used to distinguish the Francophone from the non Francophone are sound.
Please reconcile these differences forthwith!
I reckon motivated students could get pretty far with a combination of
- Rosetta Stone,
- Michel Thomas audio courses for grammar
- Lang-8.com for getting your writing corrected by native speakers.
- Anki spaced repetition / flash card software for vocab.
- The wonderful language learning book âFluent Foreverâ by Gabriel Wyner.
- A native speaker for any âhow do you sayâ questions that come up.
- Skype and some sort of penpal-finder system for talking to native speakers (admittedly parents might be concerned about their children talking to strangers on Skype, but parents could supervise.)
No teachers required 
My use of QUOTES (not scare-quotes) around âqualified instructorâ is quoting the original article (ie, using the exact terminology they were using to describe what theyâd replace the software with).
As to your âfrancophoneâ statement, I have no idea what youâre talking about.
francophone
adj. et n. m. et f.
PrononciationLes o sont ouverts, [frÉÌkÉfÉn]
adjectif
1 Dont la langue maternelle ou dâusage est le français. La population francophone du Liban. | Un Ontarien francophone.
2 OĂč lâon parle le français. Les quartiers francophones de lâagglomĂ©ration montrĂ©alaise.
3 Relatif Ă la francophonie, aux usages du français dans le monde. La poĂ©sie francophone. | «RĂ©servons les vocables de francophonie et de francophone Ă la sphĂšre diplomatique et gĂ©opolitique, et prenons lâhabitude de dire Ă©crivains de langue française»(Amin Maalouf, Le Monde).
nom masculin et féminin
Personne dâexpression française. Il y a plus de cinq millions de francophones au QuĂ©bec.
Note Orthographique francophone.
For the anglophonesâŠ
noun
a person who speaks French.
Glad people caught on âQuebecâ .
No, I know what a francophone is, I donât know what you were trying to
get at with your statement. 
Not to be confused with the âfrank-o-phone.â
Weâre talking about a school in a province where 95% of people speak french. You could find a french teacher here by asking people on the street.
Are you implying the guy they put in charge of the search committee isnât up to the task?
Because anyone who knows English is perfectly qualified to be an English teacher even though they may have no training or experience teaching?
I had the impression that studies had firmly established that Rosetta Stone is a poor tool for achieving fluency. Perhaps I am misremembering, and/or that is merely what language instructors (or at least peddlers of alternative language software) want others to believe.
I guess itâs better than nothing, although itâs hard to have puberty dreams about a box of software. Actually maybe this is the wrong crowd for this jokeâŠ
Well, thatâs what I was ultimately asking: What is the outcome of this unintentional experiment? is it yielding better or worse results than paying folks to stand in the front of the room and teach?
It should be easy to determine, by comparing their âstandardized final testsâ against other districts/other years.
You could find a french teacher here by asking people on the street.
Not if you donât speak French.
LâĂ©cole normale supĂ©rieure dĂ©teste cette truc singuliĂšrement ingĂ©nieux
