10 ~ Sanday, April 30, 1989 - North Shore News

Cleveland School will limit
French immersion enrolment

CLEVELAND ELEMENTARY
School will limit its acceptance of

French immersion stu-
dents to 25 next fall due to over-
crowdi

By MAUREEN CURTIS

Last year’s intake of 50 students
cannot: be duplicated this year
because the school now has no va-
cant rooms and is using three por-
tables. .

Cleveland school currently has
568 students, with 342 in the im-
mersion program and 226 students
in the English program.

According to North Vancouver
School District 44 administrators,

the current situation is a ‘‘tight
squeeze’ that is putting an
escalating strain on facilities, such
as the gym, computer labs and the
library.

A French immersion
kindergarten teacher acdressed
Tuesday’s school board meeting,
suggesting that current planned
accommodation for only 160
French immersion students within
the district constitutes an erosion
of the program.

The board annually makes a
commitment to an annual intake
of 200 children.

“This is a goal we work towards
and there is no intention to erode
French immersion,’”’ said board
chairman Don Bell.

B.C. ENUMERATION
Voter head count starts Monday

A PROVINCE-WIDE voter
enumeration will begin Monday.

“The Elections Act requires an
enumeration of voters to com-
mence on the first Monday in
May, three years following the last
general election,’’ Minister of
Tourism and Provincial Secretary
Bill Reid, said. ‘‘Because we have
a continuous voters list which is
computerized and updated on an
ongoing basis, there is no need to
enumerate during or close to a
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The Chief Electoral Office of
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Enumeration '89 concludes in
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Although more than 200 stu-
dents are usually signed for French
immersion by September, the ac-
tual enrolment is significantly
lower.

“People like to keep their op-
tions open and then: make the deci-
sion about their child entering
immersion in July or August,”
said trustee Richard Walton.

If all 200 students enrol in
French immersion, the district will
accommodate all of them in ex-
isting French immersion centres.

““We have to wait to see what
enrolment figures are and where
they are,’’ said Bell.

He denied that full enrolment
would result in increased class size.

of the province’s new voter list.
Also in early August, and for the
first time ever in Canada, Voter
Identification Cards will be mailed
to all registered voters in the pro-
vince.

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