By Colleen Flanagan, The Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News
Next year students in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows School District will need to complete an Indigenous-focused requirement in order to graduate.
Starting in the 2023/24 school year students in Grades 10-12 will need to complete four credits of the current 80 credit requirements for their BC Certificate of Graduation, or the Dogwood Diploma, in Indigenous-focused courses.
Options could include current provincial courses already part of the school system or a First Nations language course.
Provincial courses include BC First Peoples 12 and Contemporary Indigenous Studies 12. English First Peoples: Literacy Studies 10, New Media 10, Spoken Language 10, Writing 10, Literary Studies + New Media 11, Literary Studies + Spoken Language 11, Literary Studies + Writing 11, English First Peoples 12.
Some of the courses will be considered two credit courses, allowing the student to meet half the requirement with one class.