One of the parents involved in making Le Roi a reality, Maureen Bourgeon, says finding a school with both the space to take a new class and the openness to the idea was a bit of a struggle until they spoke to Hayata and its principal, Peggy Burrows.

The first time I met with Peggy, I explained the why behind having a bilingual school and I explained it's our family, it's our culture, it's our heritage language.

And I felt heard very much here because a lot of the kids here have different languages at school, at home than at school.

And she completely understood us, which I felt when I talked to other schools and other principals, that was kind of a bit of a weird thing for them.

But here we felt deeply connected to that.

And yeah.

Yeah, we're definitely part of that multicultural school.