may be light in the next little while as the latest post-secondary education report has hit the fan.
One thing about the Liberals: they are consistent.
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editorial in the Kings County Record. It begins:
By now Education Minister Kelly Lamrock should have learned a valuable political lesson. By this point, he should have discovered that you can mess with a lot of things and still survive to stand up in the Legislature another day.
By now he should have realized that you can mess with people’s roads, you can mess with people’s taxes, you can even mess with people’s jobs and still survive, but the thing that will bring them out fighting like cornered dogs, that one thing you cannot do is mess with people’s kids.
All I can add is, grrrr!
Perhaps fittingly, there will be a meeting this coming Tuesday, April 1 at 6:30pm, at UNB Saint John (room TBA). All who are concerned about the provincial government’s plans for elementary education are welcome to come and plan our next steps. Kids are welcome, though you might want to bring something to keep them occupied (the last meeting was in an elementary school library but we cannot offer such interesting stuff to look at!).
A Facebook event has been set up.
Welcome to la maison, a weblog designed to be something of a clearing house of information about the fightback against the New Brunswick provincial government’s plans to scrap both early French immersion and core French, and force all students in the province into a “one-size-fits-none” education model. There is a lot (a LOT) of activity on Facebook, but not everyone has a Facebook account and so there seemed a need for an alternative source of information.
As some of you will know, I started posting material on a blog began last year as part of the fightback against the Commission on Post Secondary Education in New Brunswick’s report on higher education in the province, particularly the proposal to decommission UNB Saint John. That fight is far from over (though at least the campus is safe), but this new threat to education, while part of the same government agenda, has its own set of issues. So, a new blog!
Living in Saint John, my focus will be on the southern part of the province and Saint John in particular, but will try to include as much information about the rest of the province as I hear about.
No doubt “la maison” will seem a strange title to Francophones; “clearing house” probably doesn’t mean the same thing in French as it does in English in this context: a central place for the collection and dissemination of information. But that’s okay. French Immersion is for kids whose parents aren’t bilingual. And I am one of those parents.
Bienvenue à la maison.
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