Lest I Bore You with Pictures...

While at the workshop, I learned something interesting about Canadian schools and within them, French. Several French teachers mentioned a stigma attached to being a French teacher. Apparently it isn't a popular job, and some schools rope unwilling teachers into being FSL (French as a Second Language) teachers. This may be because the students have sometimes as little as 100 minutes of French a week, and they don't show much progress even after having two or more years learning. This is frustrating for students and parents, and of course the teachers who'd like to see their students do well and enjoy themselves. I wasn't sure what the stigma was exactly, and since this was a covert mission I couldn't pump them for info the way I would during a normal convo. So I pose the question: Is there a stigma for French teachers/classes in Canada? What is it? How does it work? Why? And is there a corresponding stigma for a subject in the States? A friend of mine suggested Gym. Are there any others? I guess this was more a series of questions instead of one...