re Dec. 14, 2005: French
Language Instruction Review Task Force meeting:
See Jan.
3, 2006 Task Force meeting - CPF information
Letter (dated Dec. 8, 2005) from CPF
BC & Yukon and CPF Vancouver to VSB sent Dec. 11, 2005
.
Q PAC letter Dec. 13, 2005 to VSB re
their FI expansion plan
Brief unofficial summary of
information from the French language review task force meeting Dec. 14,
2005:
Regarding the options presented on the VSB web survey during the VSB open
houses on their FI expansion plan:
EFI
In the Kitsilano Secondary area: there was approval for Trafalgar,
Tennyson and Hudson, with Hudson to be K to 7 *
In the Churchill Secondary area: there is still no planned expansion
*
In the Vancouver Technical Secondary area: Hastings is in doubt,
there was approval for Selkirk, Strathcona is in doubt, Queen Victoria Annex/Secord
Elementary has been dropped as an option due to opposition.*
* the VSB FI expansion plan does not provide adequate EFI space to meet demand
and CPF recommends that this demand be met.
LFI
In the Kitsilano Secondary area: Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth
are still under consideration, and Southlands has been added for consideration
- this despite recommendation from CPF that this decision be postponed a
year, to not provide more LFI than there is demand, and to allow time to
explore alternative solutions to address the shortage of EFI spaces.
In the Churchill Secondary area: Henderson or Mackenzie are still
under consideration.
In the Vancouver Technical Secondary area: Hastings is in doubt,
there was approval for Selkirk, Strathcona is in doubt, Queen Victoria Annex/Secord
Elementary has been dropped as an option due to opposition.
From: owner-fr-taskforce@interchange.ubc.ca [mailto:owner-fr-taskforce@interchange.ubc.ca]
On Behalf Of Charles Menzies
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:41 AM
To: fr-taskforce@interchange.ubc.ca
Subject: VSB French Immersion Task Force: Fwd: CPF BC & Yukon and
CPF Vancouver letter December 8, 2005 to VSB
Dear Leslie,
Thanks for sending this letter.
With respect to Queen Mary/Elizabeth programmes please note that the development
issues at UBC, in which close to 200 elementary and 100 secondary students
are not able to attend neighbourhood schools, creates serious planning difficulties
for any early french immersion program in either of those two schools.
Given the rate of UBC/UEl housing development and the higher than to be expected
ratio of children to households in this area the pressure on UBC/UEL and
nearby Pt. Grey schools will only increase over the next 3 to 5 years.
This means that in this area the choice of implementing an early french immersion
programme in Q.E. or Q.M. may result in shipping elementary students from
UBC/UEl even further off site to schools past Alma. The best solution
would be several new schools out on campus, but we are only to have a renovation
to the secondary that might create one new elementary which would not really
take away the population pressure problem until 2008 or latter.
Yours,
Charles
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:49:55 -0800
From: CPF IRR <cpf99@shaw.ca>
Subject: CPF BC & Yukon and CPF Vancouver letter December 8, 2005
to VSB
To Vancouver School Board French Language Task Force members:
Attached is a December 8, 2005 letter from CPF BC & Yukon and CPF
Vancouver to the VSB re their FI expansion plan.
Lesley Wright
CPF Vancouver Interim-chair
________________________________________
Charles R. Menzies, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of British Columbia
6303 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC. V6T 1Z1
Charles Menzies UBC web page.
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This message is from the discussion/notices
list for parents involved in the French Immersion Instructional Review
Task Force.
From: Charles Menzies [mailto:cmenzies@interchange.ubc.ca]
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:44 PM
To: L Wright
Subject: Re: VSB French Immersion Task Force: VSB French Immersion Task
Force meeting Dec. 14, 2005
Leslie it is only FI schools and CFP reps, excluding private schools.
Charles
At 12:42 PM 10/12/2005, you wrote:
To FI school PAC Chairs and CPF Rep.s,
Just checking prior to the next VSB FI task force meeting Dec. 14th:
if during the VSB FI expansion plan recent period of open houses, web
survey, and school meetings for public consultation,
- if any FI PACs did
resolutions or letters to the VSB on this matter, in case they were not
copied to CPF Vancouver and we are not aware of some concerns.
Thanks if you can let me know if your PAC was active in this way,
Lesley Wright
CPF Vancouver Interim-chair
P.S. I am assuming this list includes only FI school PAC chairs. If
the list includes non FI school PAC chairs, would appreciate knowing for
your schools as well, thanks.
The message from L.
Wright is from the discussion/notices list for parents involved in
the French Immersion Instructional Review Task Force.