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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg repress. 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We cant even order them most of the time because the suppliers dont even have them. We usually have a big waiting list said Sarah Munro manager of Micro play on Kenaston Boulevard. When they do come most of them Are taken up. Since the interactive game entered the Market in october Consumers have been lining up to buy the game that features a two and a half foot Long guitar shaped controller. One hand strums a plastic bar while the other hand presses coloured buttons on the guitars neck As Colour coordinated buttons scroll Down the screen. Gamers can play More than 70 popular songs from the last 30 years. A Call to Best buy prompts a prerecorded message explaining the retailers continued efforts to keep the game on store shelves. Heather Seabrook Best buys communications specialist urged customers to be patient and Check online. Guitar hero Iii is definitely one of the most popular games this Holiday season. We Are receiving regular shipments Seabrook said. Weave got information online at bes buy. Ca. Prices for the hard to find game have skyrocketed on online auction Sites. The game and controller bundle made for playstation 2 and 3, Box 360 and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles retails in stores for about $ 100. An australian Man reportedly paid More than $ 9,000 last week for a Montreal mans copy through Ebay. The game rated suitable for Ages 13 and older lacks the usual video game features of violence or erratic driving. Munro said that might contribute to its Success. A lot More parents Are willing to buy it for their kids Munro said. Its something totally new. Its a new genre. Matthew Donahue an avid guitar hero player said the More the game is used the More pleasurable it becomes. At first the easiest setting is incredibly difficult. Once you get a Little better you feel a lot of Pride. At first it seems impossible. You get better he said. Being Able to play your Favourite songs without any Talent whatsoever makes you feel like a Rock Star. It gives you a Chance to show up those friends that have been playing guitar for years. The Wii version has recently come under attack after its sound was found to Only play in Mono while the packaging advertises stereo and dolby pro logic ii options. Act vision the games producer is planning to offer owners of the Wii version a remastered replacement disc. By Nick Martin Louis Riel school trustees Are fighting provincial orders to teach a program they say fails the needs of both French and English speaking children. Education minister Peter Bjornson said wednesday that he has again told Louis Riel that he will not allow the division to drop the so called 50 50 program at Ecol Provencher. Ism not going to give them permission to discontinue the program. There appears to be an impasse Between the division and the parents said Bjornson. But Louis Riel school Board chair Hugh Coburn retorted that his Board wont be pushed around the squabble could even go to court he said. We stand on very solid ground. Itell be very interesting to see where this Board goes he said. The division says it is in the Middle of a political Battle pitting the educational conclusions of its senior staff and French immersion teachers against a Small number of parents who have the support of finance minister and local la Greg Selinger. This program is not giving kids a very Good education in French Coburn said. Louis Riel trustees say they have a Legal opinion that its their right to scrap the 50 50 program which they say does not meet the Public schools acts definition of a second language program for either francophone or anglophone kids. But Bjornson insists that a child graduating from the program has received an education in French and says the legislation gives him final say Over any language program. Louis Riel superintendent Terry Borys said wednesday that trustees have asked Bjornson for clarification they re confused about what the political motivations Are Borys said. Educationally we know its an inferior program. Bjornson said hers willing to act As a Facilitator Between the division and the parents or even to arrange an Independent review of the program but the program As it exists must continue. They Are recognized As entitled students. The Ball is essentially in the school divisions court. Coburn said that Louis Riel May simply hand the program Over to the division Colaire Franco Manito Baine and leave the next move up to Bjornson. If its French we have to look at it As a a Sam program Coburn said. But the a Sam has said repeatedly that it does not want any part of the program. Coburn said that the 50 50 offers anglophone children far less French education than does French immersion. This program is not in the same category he said. Last month Louis Riel trustees approved converting Ecol Provencher to a French immersion school As of september of 2009. Nearby Ecol Henri Bergeron could close and Send its French immersion students to Provencher that fall. In a nov. 26 letter to Bjornson that was copied to teachers and Ecol proven herbs parents Coburn wrote that the ministers previous orders to continue the 50 50 program would have us actively promote a Francais program that we recognize to be an inadequate alternative to francophone education or French immersion education. The Board believes that the current Francais parties offering at Ecol Provencher is an inadequate second language education wrote Coburn. If this program is deemed inadequate for francophone students by the a Sam this begs the question of How it can provide adequate second language learning for anglophone students. Coburn said Bjornson is micromanaging in the school boards responsibility and said it is possible that Selinger is calling the shots. You have to read Between the lines and make up your mind he said. Said Bjornson hers the la acting on their behalf As any la represents his or her constituents. Nick. Martin free press. My. Ca whats the 50 50 program students in the kindergarten to Grade 8 Ecol Provencher take math science and English language arts in English and take the rest of their courses in French. About 60 continue on in the program to Windsor Park collegiate where 28 per cent of their curriculum is in French and 72 per cent in English. How did it Start it began in the 1970s to accommodate francophone parents who wanted their kids to learn math and science in English to be better prepared for University. Whats the difference Between 50 50 and French immersion in immersion anglophone kids would take math and science in French. The division says the 50 50 is inadequate to ground English speaking kids in French. Further says the division its just Plain wrong to award High school grads a diploma saying they ave received a French language education when they take Only 28 per cent of the High school curriculum in French. Whats the is fms role in All this the a Sam delivers French language education for families with at least one francophone Parent. The a Sam does not want to take Over the 50 50 program. What do the key players say education minister Peter Bjornson insists that the 50 50 is a French language program under the Public schools act and that he thus has the authority to order Louis Riel s. D. To continue offering it. A red has a Legal opinion that the 50 50 program does not meet the definition of a Francais program. Louis Riel trustees fighting province act vision inc. / the associated press the elusive guitar hero Iii video game stores cant keep it in Stock. 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