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To the editor:

Here we are only one week into the new, friendlier, ‘consultative' Kelly Lamrock, and, in response to the Ombudsman's indictment of the sham Croll and Less process, he has returned to the biased ways that landed him in trouble with Judge McLellan.

The most odious of his habits is using the word ‘segregated' to refer to our school system. Segregation was a state-sponsored policy that separated people racially. By using this same term for the troubles of NB's school system, he is unfairly placing the hard-working immersion teachers alongside the bigots of 1950s Alabama.

For eight years now, since the 2002 Scraba report, the term used in NB education has been ‘streaming,' and for eight years the solution has been presented to us. The 2006 Rehorick report, the last truly independent report, and one which this government promptly buried, puts it clearly: the EFI program needs equal access to resource teachers if struggling EFI kids are not going to be shunted into the Core French program. This is the solution to streaming at work today in Nova Scotia, PEI and across Canada.

In April, Lamrock's only reply to that professional viewpoint was typical: he asserted that these people, Francophone Resource and Methods teachers, simply do not exist, comparing them to ‘ten foot purple people.' Funny thing: in May the Education Department hired 35 new Resource and Methods teachers for the French sector, but I don't think any of them is purple or much over six feet.

Cheryl Boyd

Gagetown