This is what it looks like now after 10yrs of Union/Liberal rule. Wasn't MCGuinty the one who called himself the education Premier and Wynnochio comes from the school boards.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-call-it-chaos
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This is what it looks like now after 10yrs of Union/Liberal rule. Wasn't MCGuinty the one who called himself the education Premier and Wynnochio comes from the school boards.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-call-it-chaos
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Originally Posted by terrym
Yes, and Wynne was from the education dept. as well has her transition officer Benjamin Levin....
I wonder what the priorities were for them...
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...ts-court-hears
And now this:
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/01/30...n-for-teachers
That is why we Home schooled all our kids....
Seems more like a school board issue than a provincial issue.
Do do they have mandatory French emersion in London for jr and Sr. Kindergarten Terry?
No mandatory French immersion in the Thames valley District School Board.
I will vigorously oppose the local school board if they try to implement that policy here.
I have long held a belief that a lot of students can't master ONE language. Trying to force them to learn 2 is a no go in my opinion.
Well, both my kids went through the French programs and they are better for it but I agree this should not become a mandated thing. And quite frankly if they need 8-9 teachers to teach a full daycare/Kindergarten class then we can't afford it anyway. People need to learn that even if something would be nice to have we can't keep kicking the can down the road and burdening our kids with debt. Sometimes you just can't afford to do things.Quote:
Originally Posted by blasted_saber
It is good for the province and Ontario students...bull hockey...it's so they can hire more teachers.
It usually is about throwing a perq to unions, rarely to help students.Quote:
Originally Posted by line052
I agree. We have friends who put there two kids through French Immersion and they said all it does is to allow the kids to graduate illiterate in two languages instead of one. They were frustrated by the lack of quality teachers on the french side of things. According to them there is just a lot less of a pool of them to draw from than english speaking teachers.Quote:
Originally Posted by blasted_saber
I really think that the sysem is losing sight of the fact that the french immersion program was originally introduced to give access to french language education for those in Ontario who prefer to speak french. While I agree it never hurts to speak a second language I really think this french immersion program has taken on an elitist attitude. I'm sure there are areas of the Province where learning french may be beneficial later in life but here in Southern Ontario I have yet to here from anyone I've known that not knowing french has been an obsticle. My wife worked for the Provincial Ministry of Health for 12 years and I can assure you that in this area her fluency in German did far more to further her career then knowing french would have.