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Bilingual plans need support; VIEWPOINTS.


WITH Cardiff Council's consultation on the future of education in Whitchurch having started, I write to urge the good people of our great capital city to support the council's plans to properly provide for bilingual education bilingual education, the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native  in our village, by expanding Ysgol Melin Gruffydd.

The demand for bilingual education in Cardiff has grown exponentially ex·po·nen·tial  
adj.
1. Of or relating to an exponent.

2. Mathematics
a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent.

b.
 over the past decade and Whitchurch is leading the way.

Following years of short-term, piecemeal piecemeal

patchy, e.g. necrosis of the liver in which groups of hepatocytes are separated by small groups of inflammatory cells and fine, fibrous septa following extension of the inflammatory process beyond the limiting plate.
, decisions that resulted in 60 pupils admitted annually into a school designed for an intake of 30, the Council has finally grasped the nettle nettle, common name for the Urticaceae, a family of fibrous herbs, small shrubs, and trees found chiefly in the tropics and subtropics. Several genera of nettles are covered with small stinging hairs that on contact emit an irritant (formic acid) which produces a  and proposed a clear, long-term plan for bilingual education in Whitchurch and they should be supported.

Whether you support options 1, 2 or 3 (which all advocate the expansion of Ysgol Melin Gruffydd) please participate in the consultation and make your voice heard by completing the consultation form found on the council's website.

If you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 which option you prefer still complete the form and let the council know that you support the principle of the plans.

With 50% of the pupils at Ysgol Melin Gruffydd taught in temporary classrooms the time has now surely come for them to be accommodated on a campus that is fit for purpose.

Ashley Drake Wingfield Road, Yr Eglwys Newydd, Caerdydd
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Publication:South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Date:Oct 28, 2009
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