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Originally Posted by Point Blank
Absolutely. CBE partners up with several programs to help immigrants get settled, but I don’t really know what other systems of support are set up for them by the government. It’s very difficult to settle refugees, especially when they’re big families of teenagers who’ve had 10+ years of trauma. A lot of the students we teach would end up in gangs, and my colleagues would often end up being their go to people to contact outside of school because they can’t speak English and literally have no one else they can go to.
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I understand the issues that come with refugees, but this is such a small number of our overall immigration that it should not have a huge impact. Regular immigration though is also leading to huge problems with the kids not knowing the language and disrupting classes. At what point do the parents have to take responsibility or does the CBE have to hold the kids back a year and send them to English or French lessons specifically before they can join the regular school system again?
As a parent, I would never immigrate to Japan for instance without either teaching my kids the language first, or finding a school that is taught in a language they know.
On another note, as the labour dispute seems to be heading for a collision course, anything that parents can do to help support the teachers side? Anyone specifically to write to regarding support for reducing class sizes or adding more support?