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rencontré les Commissaires de la Commission Scolatre leur présentant
un bref de 15 minutes, soulignant toutes les démarches entreprises

par le Comité de Parents de Nanaimo pour obtentr un metlleur service
de transport scolaire.

Cette rencontre nous a appris que les Commissaires n'étatient
pas au courant qu'il extstatt un probléme et nous avons eu vratment
L'impression qu'ils étatent intéressés a notre situation. Jocelyne
Nuernberger et mot-méme avons été invitées & leur prochaine réunton
d'affaires aux bureaux de la Comnisston Scolatre, merecredt, le 19
septembre pour discuter de solutions posstbles.

Nous sommes trés confiants que cette rencontre sera des plus
positives @ végler le probléme de transport pour le Programme Cadre
@ Nanaimo.

Votei un article publié dans le Daily Free Press du 13 septem-
bre dernier @ ce sujet. (Richard Dunston)

Nicole Hennessey

Cadre parents worried

A spokesman for a French education
program at Quarterway school urged
the School District 68 board of trustees
Wednesday to'act quickly to solve
transportation problems which could
dissolve the program.

‘Nicole Hennessy, representing the
Association of Program Cadre, a pro-
gram at Quarterway school for
French-speaking children of French-
speaking parents, said transportation
must be improved quickly, or else the
program is in danger of folding.

Children from throughout School
District 68 are enrolled in Cadre, and
Hennessy cited a seven-year-old Cin-
nabar Valley student’s plight of having
to spend 20 minutes each day at NDSS
waiting for a bus transfer to Quarter-
way.

Inadequate bus links result in
students ‘‘losing 75 minutes of teaching
a week, and no child can afford to lose
that time of instruction,”’ she said.

In 1982, Hennessy said there were 51
students enrolled in Cadre. That
declined the following year to 44, and
she said, ‘in one week, five left

because of inadequate transporta-
tion."
Enrolment this year was 27, but Hen-

“nessy said two students have left,

again because of poor transportation,
and the Ioss of another would put it to
24 students for two teachers, and she
said then education officials would
have the right to reduce the teaching
staff to 1%, and others would leave,
putting the program in a precarious
position. : .

“It’s rather hard for us to think that
the school board is not too interested in
this,’’ she said. :

Hennessy said cadre is valuable
because of its high level of French in-
struction, adding ‘‘it is equivalent to
the English core curriculum.” French
immersion programs aren't effective
enough for some students, she said, as
in some cases, the students teach the
teachers.

“We are at the mercy of the local
school board. Please take time to con-
sider this,” she said.

The matter will be scrutinized at
next Wednesday’s business committee
meeting.