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      <title>Ms Tamara Lutz [Signature #223]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:57:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs JoAnne LeBlanc [Signature #222]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs JoAnne LeBlanc, Okotoks, Alberta, Canada<p>Unbeleivable that such restrictions would be put on such a valuable program</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:24:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Joe &amp; Tania Edens [Signature #221]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Joe &amp; Tania Edens, Kentville, NS, Canada<p>It is my belief that the school board has not been open and transparent with the public that elected them with respect to this matter.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mrs janet payne [Signature #220]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs janet payne, kentville, ns, Canada<p>no to 25 minimum</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms. Paula Brannen-Boutilier [Signature #219]</title>
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      <title>MRS Sylvia Berrey [Signature #218]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MRS Sylvia Berrey, Kentville, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Melinda Vinqvist-Tymchuk [Signature #217]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Melinda Vinqvist-Tymchuk, Kentville, NS<p>We can&#039;t proundly announce to the world that we are a bilingual country...and then fail to provide an education to our children in one of the two official languages.  French immersion NEEDS to be available, irregardless of class numbers.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Janice Dupuis, Kentville, NovaScotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:54:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Shauna Robbins [Signature #214]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Shauna Robbins, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>sheila parsons [Signature #213]</title>
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      <title>Jean &amp; Ben Heisler [Signature #212]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jean &amp; Ben Heisler, Canada<p>We are limiting our children&#039;s options and underestimating what can be acheived by our children by not allowing them to benefit from learning a second language.  Knowledge and confidence that comes from this acheivement should not be overlooked.  It should be a right within this bilingual country to have this opportunity.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Grand Master John Slade [Signature #211]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Grand Master John Slade<p>This is Canada. Any limitations in the schooling system that teaches one of Canada&#039;s official languages, denies our children the wealth and diversity of opportunities in this great nation.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr. Colin G. Landry [Signature #210]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Colin G. Landry, Sydney, Nova scotia, Canada<p>As President of CPF- N.S I am appalled ! Canadian Parents for French &ndash; Nova Scotia believes strongly that AP 401.1 needs to be re-examined by the AVRSB Board as it unduly and unfairly places restrictions on the French Immersion program, a federally funded Official Languages in Education Program.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Glenndon Whitaker, Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>I am very disheartened by Margo Tait and the AVRSB&#039;s decision to enforce this policy that has not be enforced for many years.  The way they have gone about it has been very under handed, and not transparent to the public.  I will be reconsidering any votes for any current school board member in the next election.  A one year moritorium, as per our elected MLA&#039;s suggestion, to me is a fair and viable option.  I hope Ms Tait will reconsider and take Mr. Glavine&#039;s direction.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Master Anon Ymus [Signature #208]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Master Anon Ymus<p>Why do certain people have the right to this program and certain do no because they came a year too late? So what you are saying is that if my son and 20 other children want to go they can&#039;t? So these 21 children that want to have SO many other opportunities in life because you decided it was a short-term fix on the economic situation? Great...Nice to see we have the best people determining our children&#039;s future.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Stan Millar [Signature #207]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Stan Millar, NS]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:56:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Master Gregory Allan [Signature #206]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Master Gregory Allan<p>French is a skill that is quickly becoming necessary for a lot of Canadian jobs, taking that skill away could change someones future.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Lisa Landsburg [Signature #205]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Lisa Landsburg, Berwick, NS, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:56:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Natasha Kennedy [Signature #204]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Natasha Kennedy<p>I am in French and I love it because you can get an opportunity to work that if you do not know French you will not be able to have.<br />
from:Natasha</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Phyllis Bourque [Signature #203]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Phyllis Bourque, Kingston, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Verbena J MacBeth [Signature #202]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Verbena J MacBeth]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Mar 2009 09:21:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Cynthia Whitaker [Signature #201]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Cynthia Whitaker, Canada<p>With French being our second language it&#039;s imperative all children get the same chance to learn.. regardless of class size.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Philip Hanmore [Signature #200]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Philip Hanmore, Kingston, Ontario, Canada<p>After attending a french immersion school in Ontario and his parents, both in the military,<br />
transfered to Greenwood N.S.  my grandsons should be entitled to the same schooling there.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Trudy Spurrell [Signature #199]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Trudy Spurrell, Kingston, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Christiane Rosenberger [Signature #198]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Christiane Rosenberger, Berwick, Canada<p>The best investment is education . Why is there always a short term thinking ? To learn a bit more and to give this change to the kids will help us in the future. Kids are our future !!<br />
To be bilingual will give them a better opportunity for their future. Don&#039;t take this away from them !</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Jazmine Hayden [Signature #197]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jazmine Hayden]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:29:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Mike Pastuck [Signature #196]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mike Pastuck, Kingston, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>This program is an asset to our young ones.  It opens so many doors for them early and later in    Life.  It rattles me, to hear that NS wants to rip away an opptunity for a child to learn one half of our national anthem.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr. Colm Kennedy [Signature #195]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:38:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MS Julie Glaser [Signature #194]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS Julie Glaser, Dartmouth, NS, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:15:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Karen Graham [Signature #193]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Karen Graham, halifax, nova scotia, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs. Dawn Morton [Signature #192]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Dawn Morton, Bewick, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>Adhering to the ridiculous 25 minimum enrollment figure will destroy the French Immersion program in our school.  Think of our children!  Is that not one of the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board&#039;s mandates......ensuring our children have access to an education?  I was asked when I enrolled my daughter in the program to make a commitment for the duration of her education within the NS public school system - which I did.  Where is the board&#039;s commitment to my daugther?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Heather Parker [Signature #191]</title>
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      <title>Ms Valerie Mosher [Signature #190]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Valerie Mosher, Kentville, NS]]></description>
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      <title>Geoff Mercer [Signature #189]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geoff Mercer, Kentville, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>mrs Kerrie Revels-Scholte [Signature #188]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Kerrie Revels-Scholte, Kingston, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Cheryl Smith [Signature #187]</title>
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      <title>Mike MacLean [Signature #186]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mike MacLean, kentville, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Amy Boudreau [Signature #185]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Amy Boudreau, Greenwood, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Rev. John McNally [Signature #184]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rev. John McNally, Kentville, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Dr. Catherine McNally [Signature #183]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Catherine McNally, Kentville, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Jocelyn Nicholson [Signature #182]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jocelyn Nicholson, Kentville, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Brandon Green [Signature #181]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Brandon Green<p>This is freakin&#039; idiotic. Why do you have to have 25 kids in a class to have a class. Thats like saying you have to have 100 people in a school to have a school. I am strongly against this and think that Mrs.Tait should review her decision. French is part of our culture, and if we can&#039;t learn our own culture why would we learn anything at all. Either way please rescind your decision AVRSB as i myself am a french immersion student and I think that I should be able to learn culture.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Monique Girard [Signature #180]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Monique Girard, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>Amazed on how we have to pay taxes for our children education but do not have a say in what they are being taught. Something needs to change</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs. Kelly Hockley [Signature #179]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Kelly Hockley, Kentville, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Laverne Carter [Signature #178]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Laverne Carter, Canada<p>I think that this decision will eventually cause the french immersion program to collapse.As a parent of a child who is now in high school this concerns me.I believe that his opportunities in life are increased due to this program.I have enjoyed watching his progress and his ability to communicate in both languages.It is very sad to think that future students may not have this opportunity.Besides as Canadians aren&#039;t we supposed to take proud in bilingualism.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Caroline Winters, Kingston, NS, Canada<p>Let me give my children every advantage in their rough road ahead.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mark Winters, Kingston, NS, Canada<p>My children deserve the same chances as those who have gone before and will go after them.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marissa Girard-Slade<p>I am a student of the late french immersion please help save our program it is so important to our culture and our future!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Beth Roberts [Signature #174]</title>
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      <title>Glenn Rodgers [Signature #173]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Daria Armstrong, Torbrook Mines, Anna. County, Canada<p>If we let French Immersion fall, it will take years to revive. It&#039;s such a wonderful program for our children!!! It has existed because of a lot of work and effort by many parents and educators.My daughter was able to speak to a French audience in Paris this past summer and they were thrilled that they could understand everything that she said,and they made an effort to tell her.What a great tribute to our French Immersion program here in Nova Scotia.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Clinton MacInnes, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>We are fortunate to live in a bilingual country and support our province&#039;s educational decisions  including the inclusion of French Immersion.</p>

<p>Our schools continue to support special education classes knowing such grouping  results in smaller than average class size.</p>

<p>Children of our expanded family who have taken French Immersion have benifited intellectually and have obtained employment because of their successful completion of French Immersion.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kate Adams, RR#5 Berwick, NS, Canada<p>I strongly disagree with the AVRSB decision to enforce the 25 person min enrollment for French immersion here in the ancestral and  cultural home land of  the Acadian people..... in a country which enjoys the the blessings of two official languages. English and French!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Kimberly Troop, Canada<p>Please don&#039;t take this away from our children, as education providers and as parent we want to be able to provide the best for the next generation. If funding is an issue - let us as parents help..to that we need to communicate</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Judy Tromp<p>The loss of the french emersion program is a short sighted money saver that will disadvantage Nova Scotia children against their peers from other areas/provinces for life.  The value of learning a second language at a young age should not be under estimated.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[erma russell, Coldbrook, NS, Canada<p>inform...educate...our right to a bilingual<br />
system for OUR children to speak BOTH OFFICIAL LANGUAGES of our country and to take that beyond the borders of Canada...let&#039;s step into the 21st century.....<br />
My daughter, who wishes to be a FI teacher says...&quot;French Rules!!!&quot;....she loves the language....and she is Anglais!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Nakita Levy, Canada<p>I agree that immersion classes should be smaller to allow for effective learning, however, there is a lot of really good things coming out of the various immersion programs in the AVRSB and I would hate to see that dissipate all because of money.  There must be a better way.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steve Nickerson, Kingston, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>My daughter is registering in French Immersion this for 2009/10.  I have two boys who have had very successful years in Late French Immersion.  Provide the opportunity to our youth now to become bilingual, so that they may be eligible later to compete for jobs and pursue valued careers.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Paula Connors, Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>I feel that our children deserve to have the opprotunity to learn our country&#039;s second language seeing how we are suppose to be a bilingual country.Not to mention the doors it opens for their future!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Dana MCNamaraMorse, Kingston, NS, Canada<p>Both my children 9 and 11 have been in the early immersion programs and we live in a military community. Due to postings in and out we are left with fluctuations in enrollment each year. I appreciate rules are essential to both the funding and the running of a board however there has to be some flexibility and some retrospective view in these communities. No one complains we benefit from the resources the military provides living in a military community however this can also disadvantage those o</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Chad Clements, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>Please stop his bill. This is an important decision to be made and parents need to be informed and part of the decision process</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Troy Murphy, Sherwoodpark, Alberta, Canada<p>I realize that in the tough economic times of today that government funding is short.  Do we really need to take away from the education of children to bail out the inability to run large corporations ( ie. automotive industry. ).....Just a thought.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bette Bruce, Nictaux, Nova Scotia]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Amber Clark<p>Our country has 2 official languages and it is in our childern&#039;s best interests to give them all opportunities.</p>

<p>You have the support of the parents, students and the community.  The program has been running sucessfully for years and to simply stop it now is totally unjust!</p>

<p>We need proactive thinkers in our educational systems, not people trying to cut useful educational programs!</p>]]></description>
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<p>GLad I no longer teach in AVRSB if these are the decisions being made.</p>]]></description>
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