Dozens showed up to a public consultation session in Fredericton to voice skepticism and opposition toward the New Brunswick government's plan to make sweeping changes to the way anglophone students receive French second language education.
Language education professors in New Brunswick worry the program to replace French immersion in the next school year, revealed by the Higgs government earlier this month, will lead to diminished learning for all students in all subjects.
The language debate has been rekindled in Canada s only officially bilingual province, as the New Brunswick government looks to reform French immersion in schools.
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