Ever the thought provoker, Seana Evans-Renaud fired a parting shot across the provincial government’s bow in her final speech as president of the P.E.I. Teacher’s Federation this week. Speaking to her union’s annual convention, Evans-Renaud said P.E.I. has been failing to set aside the necessary resources to educate the immigrants that we so earnestly claim to need for our provincial well-being. \

In the example of a hypothetical inner Charlottetown school, a Korean youth with no English gets two classes in ESL (English as a Second Language) over a six-day schedule. For the rest of the time, the student is expected to go from class to class and pick up what he can until his English catches up. That leaves what? Most of math except the word problems, or those parts of gym that he can pick up by example? Would it be too much to hope that he would be able to intuitively take in the information from a chemistry diagram?

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