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Diego Cardona: Under the current system, students in English Language Learning courses -- formerly known as English as a Second Language courses -- do not receive school credits for taking the class. , according to Huffington Post. Cardona, who is originally from Colombia and now attends Sir Winston Churchill Secondary, says it's a matter of fairness. A group of migrant youth are calling on the B.C. Ministry of Education to give students credit for learning English, the same way native English speakers get credit for learning a foreign language. Diego Cardona, 17, is a member of the Fresh Voices Youth Advisory Team, a group of migrant and refugee students who have started an online petition asking the B.C. Ministry of Education to change their current policy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.