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My husband and I are considering a move back to Canada and are thinking Ottawa as we have a lot of family there. But we’re bringing our 12, 9 and 6 year old kids with us.
My 12 year old is currently in honors in middle school. He has zero French. So I obviously wouldn’t put him in immersion at his age. Are the non-immersion education tracts challenging? Can you do honors without immersion?
My husband and I are considering a move back to Canada and are thinking Ottawa as we have a lot of family there. But we’re bringing our 12, 9 and 6 year old kids with us.
My 12 year old is currently in honors in middle school. He has zero French. So I obviously wouldn’t put him in immersion at his age. Are the non-immersion education tracts challenging? Can you do honors without immersion?
Thanks for the help!
There are some complaints in Ottawa that the non-French immersion programs in English schools are weaker because most of the stronger kids (i.e. those who can keep up with learning the three R's - but in another language to boot) are skimmed off by the immersion programs.
I don't know how much truth there is to this though. Probably a bit. Though if your child goes to a school in an affluent neighbourhood probably both the immersion and non-immersion streams will be fine.
You might also want to look into "late immersion" which starts around age 12 IIRC. So it's more of a beginner's program as opposed to dropping a 12 year old into a class in French where everyone has been learning it for six years.
It is not clear if you are asking about Ottawa (English province, Ontario, no need for immersion), or Gatineau across the river (French province, Quebec), where the kids may not be eligible to study in a public English school unless they (or their parents, that is, one of you) had already studied in an English school in Canada.
It is not clear if you are asking about Ottawa (English province, Ontario, no need for immersion), or Gatineau across the river (French province, Quebec), where the kids might not be eligible to study in a public English school unless they (or their parents, that is, one of you) had already studied in an English school in Canada.
My answer was based on the assumption that they would be living in Ottawa, Ontario.
I am confused if we even have an "honors education tract" similar to (supposedly) American one?
Is it the AP (Advanced Placement) program?
I answered based on my assumption of what the OP meant, since in there were terms I was not familiar with and that are probably American (or at least specific to the education system in a U.S. state).
To me it was pretty clear that the OP wanted to know if kids who aren't in French immersion in Ottawa schools find themselves in a sucky, weaker stream. (As opposed to the French immersion stream, which is reputed to be where most of the strong students are.)
I responded based on that assumption.
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