Re: Wednesday Feb. 3 editorial by Neil Godbout.
Thankfully, Prince George's community newspaper has a digital edition as well as surviving print form, allowing citizens to be kept current with true facts.
Mr. Godbout, through his editorial "Truth Makes History More Interesting" writes in the future tense, suggesting that B.C. students from Kindergarten through Grade 12 will soon learn about First Nations.
Meanwhile, teaching has been well underway for decades via the B.C. Government First Nations Program (ESD Program).
Each school's program is funded during September by First Nations parents who give consent for their child to be counted into the program.
Following, the school receives per student funding from the B.C. government.
Each school has an ESD teacher assigned within their own staff.
The job entails working with elders, First Nations parents and students, Aboriginal Workers, Aboriginal Education Assistants and classroom teachers to deliver academic and cultural programs within each school, throughout the year as a team.
District ESD teachers, from each school, also meet for provincial and district training, collaboration, and to share resources.
Taxpayers and parents can ensure the success of curriculum delivery by assisting teachers to have the resources they require to teach First Nations Curriculum: a room for a professional resources library, a room for large meetings to plan, prepare and construct instruction and activities and an audit procedure to ensure that the government funding directed to each school is directly attributed to the ESD program.
W. Girard
Prince George
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