{"id":129538,"date":"2022-11-30T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=129538"},"modified":"2022-12-01T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:37:32","slug":"higgs-plan-to-abolish-french-immersion-prompts-sackville-parents-to-form-grassroots-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/higgs-plan-to-abolish-french-immersion-prompts-sackville-parents-to-form-grassroots-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Higgs’ plan to abolish French immersion prompts Sackville parents to form grassroots group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversy continues over Premier Blaine Higgs\u2019 decision to axe French immersion in Canada\u2019s only officially bilingual province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The controversial decision became widely known in October, when then-Minister of Education Dominic Cardy announced his resignation in an explosive open letter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, Cardy blasted Higgs, saying the premier had pushed the Education Department to \u201cabolish French immersion by September 2023.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The province says French immersion will be replaced with a program geared towards better conversational French for all students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporters of that plan argue that immersion has failed to produce enough graduates fluent in French, while creating a two-tiered system of education, in which students with learning challenges are concentrated in the non-immersion stream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But many questions remain about what exactly will replace the French immersion system, which some parents say is a crucial aspect of the education system, especially in New Brunswick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics of the government also point to the premier\u2019s push for a unilingual province dating back to the 1980s, when he ran for the leadership of the anti-bilingual Confederation of Regions Party (CoR)..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The planned abolition of French immersion in New Brunswick has provoked the wrath of some local residents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A grassroots organization appears to be taking shape in Sackville. People involved in the initiative held their first in-person meeting Tuesday evening at the Sackville Commons Co-op.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About two dozen people turned out for the public meeting of the group, which is calling itself French Immersion Supporters in Sackville.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CHMA asked parents at the meeting why they decided to get involved. This report also includes clips from two guest speakers who attended the event, Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton and Chris Collins, executive director of Canadian Parents for French NB, or CPF NB:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Controversy continues over Premier Blaine Higgs\u2019 decision to axe French immersion in Canada\u2019s only officially bilingual province.\u00a0 The controversial decision became widely known in October, when then-Minister of Education Dominic Cardy announced his resignation in an explosive open letter.\u00a0 At the time, Cardy blasted Higgs, saying the premier had pushed the Education Department to \u201cabolish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":129644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221],"tags":[21293,21294,16412,4273,1214,5774],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129896,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129538\/revisions\/129896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129538"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=129538"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=129538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}