It starts to hit the fan
A longtime Liberal party supporter has quit over the French Second Language Issue:
Bob Bernier resigned last week as president of the Kings East Liberal riding association.
Bernier, who used to be a French supervisor in School District 6 near Saint John, said he resigned over the process the government used to trash the program.
"The decision of eliminating early immersion is one of the reasons, but the real reason is the process the government went through to arrive at this decision. It's based on a report that's, at best, flawed and I didn't want my reputation tainted," Bernier told CBC News.
He said he believes the government made the decision to kill the program long before it commissioned the report.
Bernier charged that Education Minister Kelly Lamrock hired two "non-experts" to deliver a report that would allow the government to kill the program.
Good for Mr. Bernier.
As I heard it put by someone more impartial than I am: If Kelly Lamrock is right on this issue, we're not going to know for another 8-10 years. And if he's wrong, he will have deprived half a generation of kids of the best way our school system has of learning a second language. At the very least, more consideration is needed before such a drastic step is taken.
Bob Bernier resigned last week as president of the Kings East Liberal riding association.
Bernier, who used to be a French supervisor in School District 6 near Saint John, said he resigned over the process the government used to trash the program.
"The decision of eliminating early immersion is one of the reasons, but the real reason is the process the government went through to arrive at this decision. It's based on a report that's, at best, flawed and I didn't want my reputation tainted," Bernier told CBC News.
He said he believes the government made the decision to kill the program long before it commissioned the report.
Bernier charged that Education Minister Kelly Lamrock hired two "non-experts" to deliver a report that would allow the government to kill the program.
Good for Mr. Bernier.
As I heard it put by someone more impartial than I am: If Kelly Lamrock is right on this issue, we're not going to know for another 8-10 years. And if he's wrong, he will have deprived half a generation of kids of the best way our school system has of learning a second language. At the very least, more consideration is needed before such a drastic step is taken.