Happiness + learning in a heavily multicultural school

Written By: BC Mary
Date: 2006-06-17 12:29:00
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Mind you, Groulx's documentary, shot in the Grade 1 class of a school in a heavily multicultural neighbourhood in Montreal, had come out way before anybody had heard of people wanting to blow up the CN Tower or behead Stephen Harper. But this is the sort of film that you want to see over and over again and that takes on a new meaning each time a "multicultural" drama breaks out in the news. What's so special about this film? Nothing much, except that it follows an exceptional teacher — Lise Coupal — and her Grade 1 students over the course of a year in a multi-ethnic school. Their names are not Jack and Jill, but Rafik, Solace, Rahat and Adonay. They come in on the first day of school speaking Urdu, Tamil, Hindi, Thai and every possible language of the rainbow except French, of course. Most of them have just arrived with their parents from India, Africa, Pakistan or Somalia, and a few are only stopping over in Montreal for the year before heading to Toronto to reunite with the rest of the family. In the meantime, they have to go school. And since they are living in Quebec, they have to abide by the language laws and go to a French-language school. <a href='http://www.thestar.com.NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1150451529461'>The Star</a> [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on June 19, 2006]

Here is an unbroken link to this story: <A HREF="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1150451529461">http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/</A> These new immigrants are heading to Toronto, which means there is no chance their relatives from there will convince them to initiate lawsuits against our language laws. It's a sad state of affairs when immigrants feel their adopting country is so gullible to allow them to undermine its heritage, but that's the result of lax and irresponsible Liberal immigration policies.

Oh please! Just how are they undermining our 'heritage'? Heritage is nothing more than what we make it. It's not exclusive to one group of people!

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

Christie Blatchford writes eloquently on this very topic, Samuel & Roy.

It's worth posting on Vive, if someone has time to root it out. Just look
for Blatchford in the Globe & Mail on June 17.

<A HREF="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060617.COBLATCH17/TPStory/National/columnists&sa=X&oi=news&ct=result&cd=1">Bending over backward by Christie Blatchford</A> Christie Blatchford draws a parallel with historical or traditional immigration. I don't think she realizes what's been happening for the past dozen years of Liberal rule. A massive influx of Asian immigrants (of specific ethnicities) does not constitute or follow a policy of multiculturalism. This combined with the fact these first generation immigrants now comprise an all time high of one quarter of the population.

You can access Christie Blatchford's story sans the retina scan registration by clicking to it from Google's <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Bending+over+backward+by+Christie+Blatchford">search result</A>.

Christie Blatchford 
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Christie Blatchford is a Canadian newspaper columnist and broadcaster. 
 
Born in Québec in the early 1950s, Blatchford studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, and wrote for the campus newspaper, The Eyeopener. She subsequently worked as a sports reporter for the Globe and Mail, and as a columnist at the Toronto Star, before moving to the tabloid paper, the Toronto Sun. She remained at the Sun for almost twenty years, first as a lifestyle columnist, and then as a city columnist featured on page five of the paper. She was hired away by the National Post when it was launched, but when the Post floundered in recent years, she moved to take up a columnist's job at The Globe and Mail. 
 
Blatchford is known as a conservative columnist. Many of her columns focus on crime and coverage of court proceedings, most notably the trial and subsequent legal hearings of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. She has been accused of having an uncritical attitude towards the police, particularly in her days at the Sun. 
 
A Globe and Mail column published on 6 May 2006 immediately following the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests garnered particular attention in the Canadian press; the column alleged that Canadian authorities were going out of their way to dispel any suggestion of a link between the suspects and Islam. [1] This article sparked a considerable media response, including an article by Robert Fisk entitled "How racism has invaded Canada" and an column by Toronto Star Antonia Zerbisias which initially referred to Blatchford's column as "a Christie-nacht screed against a single community." 
 
While she is best known as a columnist, she also contributes commentary to radio station CFRB and is frequently heard on the air being interviewed on local issues. 
 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Blatchford">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Blatchford</a>--- Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be. 
 
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

jensonj ... is there some particular reason why Christie Blatchford's bio is
given here in full?

bcmary... is there some particular reason why you are asking?

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein