I think language immersion is important to the healing that David referred to. I think that when you privilege a language in a school, you privilege a systems way of thinking. I think that's probably the biggest one.
I think we also need to allow schools to develop alternative programming that is seen to be a mainstay.
When I left the school, we lost our year-round calendar. We lost a lot of things, and those need to be entrenched in the fabric of what is important—language and alternative programming.
Let's redefine the metrics of success. I like the NWT in that we fund students up to 21, so we're away from that period of time, K-12, and from saying you should be done, you should have graduated, at 18. Well, that's not necessarily achievable in all of our communities, but by 21, it is.
Marsi.