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No scenario is perfect and not everyone is happyContinued from page 12children are treated as equitably as and with with French immersion. My problem is that as much consideration as is given to all its always receiving the same weight as a other students in Halton. mandated program in this board, Dalgarno None of the three final scenarios This includes welcoming schools in their read.own community.were perfect as they were. ThatShe said only if there is sufficient room for Furthermore, she added FI programing was an acknowledged fact the mandated English program in the school, does not pose additional costs to the school at our last meeting."the board should consider the optional pro-board, and that additional funding comes gram.from the Province to accommodate it.Susan Sheppard, OakvilleOptional programming is nice to have Another supporter of the recommenda-when there is space, resources and money, tion was Laura Klemenchuk, saying it meets yet this board continues to displace the needs the criteria set out in the boundary review of the mandated program.process.Furthermore, she claimed the BRC pro-Currently, northwest Oakville is the cess has not been transparent and that com-only area of Oakville that does not offer mittee members were not shown the option French Immersion at a local high school, that FI may begin as early as 2012.she said.dation attempts to keep as many students Those comments were repeated by Jenn She said the recommended scenario is as possible in their neighbourhood, which Poirier, Al Wilmot and others.the most balanced of all the options and 103, she said. Under current boundaries, her will mean cohorts will be kept together. Wilmot also added that FI enrollment will relieves accommodation pressures on Abbey children will be bussed past the new school to However, she added, FI should not begin not be viable until the 2015-16 school year in Park and T. A. Blakelock high schools.Blakelock.until there is enough enrollment need.the new school.She added if no changes were made to Susan Sheppard commended the director Lorraine Ladha, who was on the BRC, Another BRC member, Mark Verdun, the FI boundaries, Blakelocks projections for making his recommendation, after having supported the recommendation.called on FI beginning only in 2015 when for enrollment would be 1,500 students by tweaked a BRC recommendation to make it She said there were immediate argu-enrollment will be high enough to make it 2020, well beyond its capacity.better.ments from parents that it was the FI stu-viable, and not beforehand.She said Iroquois Ridge has 130 FI stu-None of the three final scenarios were dents that caused the overcrowding in Ward There were also those who supported the dents, OT has 185, White Oaks was 210, perfect as they were. That was an acknowl-4, rather than the lack of seats.BRC process.Blakelock has 294, more than half of whom edged fact at our last meeting, she said.If all French Immersion students ceased My reason for delegating today is to sup-currently reside in north-west Oakville.Celine Swankie said that when most high enrollment in French Immersion program-port the process that we believe was con-She added that by 2020, there will be schools are at full capacity there is still not ing then the issue of accommodation in ducted transparently, honestly and with a full more than 500 FI students residing in enough room to accommodate all students in Ward 4 would continue, she said.understanding of the committee members of northwest Oakville.Ward 4. That is why the BRC was tasked with It is important to ensure that these the scope and limitations of our involve-finding which students should leave.ment, said Renaud Campbell. She said the FI program in Oakville is very He added the BRC members were aware successful, and she singled out the T. A. that recommendations could be revised and Blakelock High School program.the final decision is at the discretion of the In order for the program to remain via-board.ble, it must have sufficient numbers, she There were parents who called on the said. 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