The whole thing needs to be looked at again. This year I've gotten a chance to see from the inside as a PSSC member at my son's school, some of the challenges at the middle school level. My son attended an elementary school that did not offer any immersion at all. So he entered late immersion in grade 6 at middle school. In his class are students who like him are late immmersion mixed with some students who were in the intensive french grade 5 program. Some of the intensive french went into core french, the rest in late immersion. It has created significant gaps between the students, including parents who are frustrated at the intensive french students, not being challenged enough in the late immersion.

So essentially the province has early immmersion, late immersion, intensive french feed into either core or late immersion. And not all elementary schools offer immersion. In other words, it sounds like the system could use a restructuring.