Question:
Elementary Teacher Resume any Example ?
Answer:
-I went to a French immersion school and now I'm in University. From my
experience and what I have read in psychology text books, there is no real
benefits or cons for a child to attend a French immersion school. First,
there is no proof that children learn less, or learn worse after attending a
French immersion school. In reality, learning French is useless, unless you
plan on living in an area where people speak French, or if you plan on
getting some weird government job working for a French ambassador?? It
really is useless. It doesn't look any better on a resume to be able to
speak French, simply because everyone (except for Quebec residents) speaks
English. In reality, if someone were to learn a second language, Japanese
or Chinese would be more practical (because than that person could work as a
consultant etc for Canadian and American companies that do business with the
Japanese/Chinese, etc).
Another point I will throw in is this. Out of everyone in my grade in St.
Gerard, I think approximately 2/3 are in University now, and the rest are
probably in Kelsy or labors. I'm sure that is a much better outcome that
some public schools.
On the positive note, the one thing about French immersion catholic
schools, is that they are a better environment for children. Though I am
anti religious myself, I went have attended Catholic elementary schools, and
public elementary schools. There is far less bullying at the Catholic
school I went too (St. Gerard) compared to both the public schools. At the
public schools, there was always a kid getting seriously beaten up, or just
picked on. At St. Gerard, the odd kid got called names, but it was no big
deal (or at least from what I saw). Teachers in the catholic school spend
much more time teaching respect, etc. If your afraid of your kid becoming
religious, I wouldn't worry at St. Gerard. They don't push religion on
anyone, I think they have pray 3 times a day, but other than that, there is
very little religious teaching (or at least when I attended (1988-95).
-You can get a job doing surveys in french! You don't get paid more than
doing them in english, and usually you are hired on temporarily just to do
the french surveys and then let go unlike the english speakers who are
usually kept on longer. But hey, you're using your french! lol
But that is true, a far more useful language to learn would be mandarin,
cantonese, or japanese.
