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I'd be much more interested in a school that celebrated all Francophone heritage.  [b]Where students studied about, and read literature from Mali and Togo and Benin, as well as France and Belgium and Switzerland[/b], and where students looked at issues that faced those countries.  I'd also be much more interested in a school that did a lot of outreach of French speaking African families in the area.

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[b]If it's really going to be French/Green focused, another advantage of PK-8 is the opportunity to build the green focus/issues/history etc of environmental issues in all of those countries and others (Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire, etc). [/b] There could be a whole avenue of learning history, science, world economics, math, agriculture, nutrition, health... with this French Green focus.  The older the kids get, the more they can engage these topics through these lenses (as well as so many other lenses that have nothing to do with French or green).

We can do this, I can already see us fighting here on DCUM about the 5th grade trip to Mali and Switzerland!!!  (Affectionate YY reference, and I really mean it, it is affectionate! :D )[/quote]

Just about the only French-speakers I haven't seen anyone mention are the French Canadians.   It would be a mistake to ignore them - they practically invented immersion schools.[/quote]

I'm the PP you quoted and I agree 100%.  Canada is also probably a great place to look for curriculum.[/quote]

I think we can say Canada is officially added![/quote]

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