Education
Due to Punjabi being the native language of the Sikh faith, it is spoken commonly throughout both converts and Indo-Canadians. Due to the large population of Sikh peoples in the city of Surrey, the Punjabi language is available as an educational course in the fifth grade using the British Columbia Punjabi Language Curriculum. In specific schools in the city of Abbotsford, the Punjabi language too is available as a course that can be taken following the fifth grade in elementary school levels. For Abbotsford, however, when the curriculum was suggested to a more mainstream stray of schools, controversy was brought up, despite Punjabi being Abbotsford's second largest language. Many comments brought up were those who stated that only English and French should be taught in the district and that the costs to parents would be high, these comments were believed to be racially driven due to other secondary languages being taught for free in the district.
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