Canada Immersed in French; No Thanks.

Surrey French immersion actually short students, despite SUPPOSED long-standing demand French immersion school at Cougar Creek School in Surrey is in peril of shutting before it opens, as only six families have signed up.

Many of these families are of East Asian descent and are already MULTI LINGUAL.

WHAT MOST OF THEM WANT FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR CHILDREN IS TO BECOME TRULY FUNCTIONALLY LITERATE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE— SUPPOSEDLY THE MOST COMMONLY USED LANGUAGE – IN THE ENTIRE WORLD BUT ALSO THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH THE MAJORITY OF CANADIANS ARE FUNCTIONALLY ILITERATE.

CANADIAN COVERNMENTS??? HAVE “CUT BACK”ON THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH.

FRENCH IMMERSION & CANADIAN PARENTS FOR FRENCH=French Immersion= A FRENCH CANADA.  

French is used mainly by our governments??? and, while there are small pockets of French speaking Canadians, scattered throughout Canada; Quebec and the “Metis” of Manitoba

 FRENCH IS NOT THE MOST COMMONLY USED LANGUAGE IN CANADA. FRENCH IS NOT EVEN THE SECOND OF THIRD MOST COMMONLY USED LANGUAGE. CANTONESE IS SECOND TO ENGLISH; FOLLOWED BY VARIOUS MIDDLE EAST DIALECTS.

Maple Ridge Secondary's French Immersion program offers students the opportunity to learn subjects in an immersion context and to be able to attain a high level of fluency in the language by the end of grade 12.  The program intends to offer the best available courses and curriculum to compliment the studies of a student who would like to graduate one day with a bilingual provincial Dogwood certificate.

While quite possibly not taking any courses in English AT ALL; students in this program would take four courses in French during their grade 8 year.  During grade 9 and 10, students would take three courses in French.  Over the grade 11 and 12 years, students  would take a total of three courses in French spread over two years.

~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan