N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language (fwd link)

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 N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language
First time program is available in 20 years CBC
News<http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html> Posted:
Jun 20, 2012 2:10 PM CT Last Updated: Jun 20, 2012 3:04 PM CT
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 [image: Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho
Yati kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five
years ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled.] *
Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho Yati
kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five years
ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled. (CBC)*

This fall, kindergarten classes in Behchoko, N.W.T., will be offered
entirely in the Tlicho language.

This is the first time parents will be able to choose whether to enroll
their children in an English or Tlicho immersion class.

Rita Mueller is the CEO of the Tlicho Community Services Agency.

“The advantage for children is to be really grounded in knowing where they
come from and being able to learn the language so they can speak to elders
and their grandparents and aunties and uncles whose first language has
always been Tlicho,” she said.

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