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In a familiar scene from across the region over the weekend, a tree blocks a lane of 96 Avenue near Green Timbers Urban Forest on Saturday. Surrey and North Delta were whalloped with a severe wind storm during the afternoon which knocked down trees and power lines, blocking roads and cutting power to thousands of homes and businesses. BOAZ JOSEPH
FRENCH PROGRAM IN PERIL BEFORE IT STARTS
▶ JUST 12 FAMILIES HAVE SIGNED UP FOR FRENCH IMMERSION CLASSES AT COUGAR CREEK ELEMENTARY KEVIN DIAKIW
After years of lobbying for better access to a French Immersion (FI) program at Cougar Creek Elementary, only 12 families have signed up for the 2014-15 school year.
In June, the Surrey School District green-lighted FI at the 12236 70A Avenue school after a huge outcry for more spaces. Wait lists, parents said, were too long. If successful, a program at Cougar Creek will be the seventh at 101 elementary schools in Surrey offering FI. Now, the district said the program is at risk of closing even before it starts due to lack of parents registering. From late spring to mid-August this year, the parents of every one of the 229 families on the French Immersion program wait list were personally contacted and offered a seat at Cougar Creek, the
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district said last week. “The most frequent reason given by parents who were on the wait list and chose not to take one of the seats is because they didn’t want to drive,” district spokesman Doug Strachan said Thursday. He noted that driving is the nature of any choice program, as they are regional in scope. The district is not considering a required threshold needed to keep the program, but it certainly would like to fill at least one kindergarten class of 22 students.
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