New Brunswick French immersion reform lowering bar for bilingualism: advocacy group
The new program will start in kindergarten, rather than Grade 3 as it does in the current system.
Christina Robichaud, whose daughter Natasha attends the school, told Global News she has seen a noticeable decline in her daughter’s French skills since the program started.“She enjoyed French very much when she started in Grade 3,” she said in an interview on Thursday. She said she and other Maplehurst parents don’t understand why the province would move forward with this plan without consulting them.
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