learn french pronounciation Interesting Tip

I understand why the culture and criteria about featured content on Commons might be frustrating to you, but as a regular voter on COM:FPC, let me explain, since you seem to have misunderstood the criteria for the process.

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if you mean the output of your alternator, most are stamped on the alternator something like: 95A
Meaning 95 amp output, otherwise check at a part store or site for your alternator, they usually tell you what it puts out.
If your talking the amp draw of the HFE cell, any cheap amp gauge, even from a broken battery charger will work.
The Output from the HFE cell can be measured using a homemade volumn tester, see Output Testing

1- Why separate school boards. 1st off, there is not only the ESMB, there is also the LSBPSB. The reason they exist of course is what you mentioned, we used to have religious based school boards: Catholic, protestant. These were all merged into regional school boards split by language. This was done for practical reasons. You must remember at the time of the restructuring, there was no way the English would accept to be bunched with the French and vice versa. There was also union considerations. English teachers are not in same union as French ones and it would have been a logistical nightmare. That being said, times have changed and the question is not without merit. In fact, the ADQ and now Francois Legault are both suggesting to get rid of school boards altogether in their current form. Contrary to what you mention regarding immersion, it is not 90% who use it, or have used it. In fact ,of the LBPSB and the EMSB, only about 50% of the schools offer immersion. another 30% offer bilingual program. the rest the full English program. The difference is percentage of time in English. Recent studies show that those in immersion have somewhat greater success in government exams. (Yes they have them even at the elementary levels). Note: all percentages are approximate, I haven’t read these studies in 9 months. The school boards are closing schools, but they are also opening new ones up. Some are at full capacity and if they had more space would fill that up to. IT comes to the program offered and local demographics to some extent. Though that is not as prevalent as it was in the past. Kids no longer walk to school for the most part. Parents will go to great distances to get their kids in the right program in their eyes. For example: Last year LBPSB closed or merged 3 schools and opened a new one. The reality in a nutshell is parents do want their kids to learn French (most aren’t stupid and realize where they live), but not at the detriment of the quality of the English they learn. International Baccalaureate programs (IB) are becoming more and more popular. They are an immersion program. All the schools who offer this are full. Alas to get accredited for this, you need willing teachers, and not too many are pleased with the level of work they need to do and thus even though they are probably the better schools to work in, finding teachers for them is hard. As for segregation, there are more and more programs that exist with schools of different language mixing up for projects and such. My son recently did a project with neighbouring French school where all the grade three students from both schools wrote short stories together and presented them to the kindergarten kids. So my point is it is not all bad. It is happening, just very slowly. You always have to remember labour agreements are different with both sets of teachers and thus not easy to manage. The school boards offer great services to the schools but on the other hand, smother principals in bureaucracy. If one where to eliminate them, you’d lose the ability to centralize purchases, HR, manage the real estate, etc.. On the other hand, if principals where given more power, I would bet you would see much more neighbouring schools interact with each other. French and English. Back to your original question: >Does Anglo culture in Montreal really need that kind of protection? Are there really that many Anglos left in the city who are demanding that their kids receive their public education primarily in English? I bet you haven’t been to a school board meeting in ages. The answers are: Yes (in their opinion), and yes, many if not most. I think it would be wise that I enter a little note about my own experience. My wife and I are French. My son speaks French at home. But since I have the right to send my kid to English school, I used it. And now he will have same right. This was the main factor, to keep that right, but also I believe that the English instruction in French schools is horrible compared to the quality of French in English schools. I chose the lesser evil. It comes at a price, my kid does 3 hours of French with a tutor per week. This maintains him at levels equal or above his peers in French schools. On all other levels in a regular school, the problem is not the school boards, but the MELS (ministere de l’education). Their curriculum is so fucked up it is ridiculous. The fact that kids are in their minds all equal is fucked up. The fact they insist on putting all the kids together is hurting the level of education for most kids. To help a few and this is questionable, you are putting the level of education of most at a lower standard.

I’m lazy when it comes to French articles. I am glad you were able to point it out, though. A definite turn on.

I think it means the way that they used the principles of designs or the elements of art. So maybe like rhythm, movement, composition, color schemes, that sort of thing. So if the artist, for example, used warmer colors and sharper edges on the eye of a portrait to draw your eye to it, that would be one way you would decide on the technical quality I guess

Hope I helped, keep on making art:)