‘Conversation has just begun’ for French second-language education reforms: Higgs
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The proposed reform was met with strong opposition, with hundreds of parents passionately arguing for the status quo at public consultations.Critics of the proposed program felt it lowered the bar for French second language proficiency by setting it at “conversational French.” “Unfortunately in these sessions, rather than get to the root cause of how we fix this … it becomes a shouting session and it becomes distracted in terms of the real point,” Higgs said of the public consultations on Monday.
Hogan cited the public opposition as part of the reason the reforms were scrapped in a news release issued on Friday.Read more:
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