North Shore French Immersion school a future possibility
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KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops-Thompson School District has taken a first small step toward alleviating pressures being felt in the district’s French Immersion program.
The board of education anticipated the program was getting full, but wasn’t aware just how high in demand it really is. Trustees are now looking at the potential of establishing a single-track French Immersion school on the North Shore, to provide more space. However, with the province asking the district to scale back administrative costs, to the tune of $2-million over the next two years, opening up a new school could prove challenging.
“We will continue to pursue it, the reason it came forward at last night’s meeting was because the board was really curious to find out how many students from the North Shore were attending the school of choice. We found out that Lloyd George has 146 students coming from the north side of the river, were there to be a school on the North Shore we’re not sure all of those people would be interested, but certainly some of them might be, so there is some potential and we will continue to investigate,” says Denise Harper, School Board Chair.
