If you aren’t reading
8 04 2008the comments sections after the online news articles, you’re missing half the fun. Cut and pasted from one such comment by Tyler Durden:
A list of those who support EFI removal:
- Kelly Lamrock
- Doug Willms
A partial list of those who oppose the Lamrock plan:
- The Commissioner of Official Languages, NB
- The Commissioner of Official Languages, Canada
- The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers
- Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities
- The Center for Research on Education at the Université de Moncton
- The Second Language Research Institute of Canada
- Liberal Party Riding Association Presidents in Kings-East, Tantramar, and Nigadoo-Chaleur.
- Co-Author of the Official Languages Act Robert Pichette
- Political Scientist and Liberal Party Strategist Donald Savoie
- Association Canadienne des Professeurs D’Immersion
- L’Association des enseignantes et des enseignants francophones du
- Nouveau-Brunswick (AEFNB),
- Consortium of Universities Advising the Canadian Association of Immersion Teachers
- Association Francophone des Parents du NB
- Canadian Parents for French
- Paul Zed, Liberal MP
- Saint John Mayor and City Council
Update (Apr 15/08): I have added a page that lists critics of the Lamrock plan and/or the Croll/Lee report.
Adding to the list:
Diana Hamilton and Matthew Litvak, Statistics professors, Mount Allison and authors of Litvak-Hamilton analysis of Croll-Lee Report
Canadian Parents for French
Joan Netten, Designer of Intensive French
Bernard Lord, head of Bilingualism Committee of Canada and former Premier
Fred Genesee, Professor and Researcher of Bilingualism, McGill University
Geoff Martin, Professor Political Science, Mount Allison University
Helene Deacon, language and literacy professor, Dalhousie University
Univerisity of New Brunswick Math and Statistics Department (analysis in the Commission’s report is incorrect; fail to see how the far-reaching recommendations of the report follow from the analyses presented therein)
Bernard Richard, Ombudsman (not against changes, but recommends a one year moratorium; conducting investigation)
and most important: PARENTS and CITIZENS
Does anyone have stats to dispute this claim by Jimmy of Moncton who said
“The French immersion program is an abysmal failure. For every one of you who say you have successfully made your way through the French immersion program, congratulations. You are in the top 1 percentile. But you must recognize that there are 90%+ of the students that this system has failed. The stats don’t lie. In one of the earlier posts a bilingual gentleman said he has interviewed many English (bilingual) students and none were even proficient”
You can find this on the CBC comments site:
Your View - New Brunswick French Immersion
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/nb/2008/04/french_immersion.html#comments_open
from April 4.
Thanks,
DS
But of course the NB Home and School Associations and the DEC Chairs are supporting Lamrock. And don’t you dare suggest this woman has anything to do with that support:
Patricia Lee resume from gnb.ca: Lee has held many different executive positions at several Home and School Associations as her children moved on to different schools. Lee has also served for many years on both the District and Provincial Home and School executives…..When governance changed again she was elected to the DEC and has been chairperson of District 16 Education Council since 2002.
Société des Acadiens & Acadiennes
Yvon Godin, NDP Member of Parliment
Rob Moore, Member of Parliment for Fundy Royal
Senator Norman Atkins
AIM Language Learning
Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
Senator Hugh Segal