Marc Richardson: Quebec's high school system needs a makeover

“We have to look at ourselves as a society and not just compare ourselves to Ontario.” Those words were part of Quebec Education Minister Sébastien Proulx’s response to scathing blowback following the publication of an Institut du Québec study into dropout rates in Quebec public high schools.
The study found that high school graduation rates in Quebec are lagging behind those in the rest of Canada, that gap is even more pronounced among boys, and that the sit