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Way to be complete MORONS, NB government!
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stormkpr, I think I've found something to blog about that totally pisses me off and makes me mad as hell.
MAUDIT TABERNAC! QUEL STUPIDITE! LE GOUVERNMENT EST FAIT DES FOUS!
Hmm, this got long... They scrapped Early Immersion.
Early French Immersion was the ONLY good thing in the entire New Brunswick education system, why did you SCRAP it? Are you TRYING to completely cripple the employment prospects of your children? Let's keep them from being bilingual! That will keep them from moving to Alberta so they can find work!
The reason Early Immersion works so brilliantly is that kids in grade one are still in the key phase of language acquisition! They're in the magic window that is the BEST time to introduce a second language! Kids who go through early immersion end up fluently bilingual. Complete with a proper accent! You can't hold off on immersion until grade six! When they mixed the entry points in grade nine, we went from reading books aimed at grade eight francophones to books that said "Easy Reader" on the cover and had footnotes explaining canard. CANARD! IT'S A FREAKING DUCK!
"When they have a good strong base in their first language, reading and math skills, and then you introduce that second language, they will make much better progress,'' he said.
You, sir, are WRONG. Languages are one of the things where it is CRITICAL to introduce them younger. They will make much better progress if they're at a stage of language development that facilitates it. Which is NOT grade six and it never WILL be. You're also ignoring the fact that the early immersion kids usually do BETTER on all the standardized tests than the core students. They're going to be learning to read either way, it doesn't matter if they're doing it in French or English. And when my sister struggled through learning to read, my mother was told to KEEP her in French because the early immersion classes had a much better basis in phonics.
The changes follow a controversial report that concluded 91 per cent of the roughly 1,500 New Brunswick children who started early immersion in 1995 dropped out of the program by the time they reached high school.
They drop out of the French Immersion program because scheduling is MORONIC and it's drop that or drop a course they need for university. But you know what? By the time they drop out of the program, they've been taking a vast majority of their classes in French for TEN YEARS. They are ALREADY BILLINGUAL.
As of 2006, less than one per cent of graduating students were proficient in speaking French.
This statistic is horribly skewed. If you were forced to drop out of the program (Because, oh, you had to drop grade twelve French language arts because it conflicted with the history class you needed to graduate, which oh yeah STILL only fit in your schedule if you took it IN FRENCH...), you aren't allowed to SIT THE TEST. Of course you're going to get low numbers graduating with the certificate if you don't let people who were forced out of the program TRY FOR IT. (Honestly! The only difference between me and someone who took grade twelve French Immersion language arts is that I didn't read Le Petit Prince!)
However, Fraser said he was pleased the government decided to maintain the target of 70 per cent of students being functionally bilingual by the time they graduate high school.
What the HELL? You get rid of the program that has the best chance of making them billingual and expect the number of billingual graduates to MAGICALLY increase? How's that supposed to happen? The Billingualism Fairy?
C'EST UNE PROVINCE BILLINGUE, TETES CARRES!
This, incidentally, confirms my desire to stay away from New Brunswick because I don't want to subject my children to this education system.
MANGE LA MERDE MONSIEUR LAMROCK! TU AS TUER LA SEUL BONNE CHOSE A PROPOS DE TA PROVINCE! ET OUI, J'AI ECRIVER TU ET PAS VOUS! TU N'EST PAS UN TU A MOI! JE N'AI PAS DU RESPET POUR TOI! POURQUOI AS TU PAS ECOUTER LES PERSONNES QUI DISAIENT QUE CECI EST UN IDEE TERRIBLE? PENSER DES ENFANTS! LES ENFANTS QUI DOIT TROUVER DU TRAVAIL DANS UNE PROVINCE BILLINGUE ET TU LES ARRETES D'ETRE BILLINGUE! COMMENT POUVE TU PENSER QUE CECI EST UNE BONNE IDEE?
stormkpr, I think I've found something to blog about that totally pisses me off and makes me mad as hell.MAUDIT TABERNAC! QUEL STUPIDITE! LE GOUVERNMENT EST FAIT DES FOUS!
Hmm, this got long... They scrapped Early Immersion.
Early French Immersion was the ONLY good thing in the entire New Brunswick education system, why did you SCRAP it? Are you TRYING to completely cripple the employment prospects of your children? Let's keep them from being bilingual! That will keep them from moving to Alberta so they can find work!
The reason Early Immersion works so brilliantly is that kids in grade one are still in the key phase of language acquisition! They're in the magic window that is the BEST time to introduce a second language! Kids who go through early immersion end up fluently bilingual. Complete with a proper accent! You can't hold off on immersion until grade six! When they mixed the entry points in grade nine, we went from reading books aimed at grade eight francophones to books that said "Easy Reader" on the cover and had footnotes explaining canard. CANARD! IT'S A FREAKING DUCK!
"When they have a good strong base in their first language, reading and math skills, and then you introduce that second language, they will make much better progress,'' he said.
You, sir, are WRONG. Languages are one of the things where it is CRITICAL to introduce them younger. They will make much better progress if they're at a stage of language development that facilitates it. Which is NOT grade six and it never WILL be. You're also ignoring the fact that the early immersion kids usually do BETTER on all the standardized tests than the core students. They're going to be learning to read either way, it doesn't matter if they're doing it in French or English. And when my sister struggled through learning to read, my mother was told to KEEP her in French because the early immersion classes had a much better basis in phonics.
The changes follow a controversial report that concluded 91 per cent of the roughly 1,500 New Brunswick children who started early immersion in 1995 dropped out of the program by the time they reached high school.
They drop out of the French Immersion program because scheduling is MORONIC and it's drop that or drop a course they need for university. But you know what? By the time they drop out of the program, they've been taking a vast majority of their classes in French for TEN YEARS. They are ALREADY BILLINGUAL.
As of 2006, less than one per cent of graduating students were proficient in speaking French.
This statistic is horribly skewed. If you were forced to drop out of the program (Because, oh, you had to drop grade twelve French language arts because it conflicted with the history class you needed to graduate, which oh yeah STILL only fit in your schedule if you took it IN FRENCH...), you aren't allowed to SIT THE TEST. Of course you're going to get low numbers graduating with the certificate if you don't let people who were forced out of the program TRY FOR IT. (Honestly! The only difference between me and someone who took grade twelve French Immersion language arts is that I didn't read Le Petit Prince!)
However, Fraser said he was pleased the government decided to maintain the target of 70 per cent of students being functionally bilingual by the time they graduate high school.
What the HELL? You get rid of the program that has the best chance of making them billingual and expect the number of billingual graduates to MAGICALLY increase? How's that supposed to happen? The Billingualism Fairy?
C'EST UNE PROVINCE BILLINGUE, TETES CARRES!
This, incidentally, confirms my desire to stay away from New Brunswick because I don't want to subject my children to this education system.
MANGE LA MERDE MONSIEUR LAMROCK! TU AS TUER LA SEUL BONNE CHOSE A PROPOS DE TA PROVINCE! ET OUI, J'AI ECRIVER TU ET PAS VOUS! TU N'EST PAS UN TU A MOI! JE N'AI PAS DU RESPET POUR TOI! POURQUOI AS TU PAS ECOUTER LES PERSONNES QUI DISAIENT QUE CECI EST UN IDEE TERRIBLE? PENSER DES ENFANTS! LES ENFANTS QUI DOIT TROUVER DU TRAVAIL DANS UNE PROVINCE BILLINGUE ET TU LES ARRETES D'ETRE BILLINGUE! COMMENT POUVE TU PENSER QUE CECI EST UNE BONNE IDEE?