Dan Gardner's column is intresting - especially seeing as my older brother went to French immersion for a bit and then I went to enrichment. My parents = social snobs? Hmm.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Based on my experience supply teaching in different elementary schools, Dan Gardner is correct in his assessment. It doesn't mean that we should abolish French Immersion schools. They do a good job educating the students in French. We should be making other schools unique where parents will want to send their children. I have advocated that schools can offer other specialized programs that focus on other languages, the arts, sciences, and athletics for example. One public school where I taught has an International Baccalaureate program. The point is that every school needs to advertise that it is unique from the others. Besides selling that a neighbourhood school has a great literacy program (they all do), each school has to demonstrate what makes it unique and why parents should send their children to that school.
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