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?.agae 2, Whltby Fiee Press, Wednesday; Decemdber 6, 1995 if numbers don't warrant modified calend ar to be dýropped By bMark Reeor A new Whitby elementary sehool belng built on* the grounds of Anderson CVI may flot operate on a modified school year calendar after ail. Parents opposed to the plan PAUL BIRD SALES REPRESENTATIVE BUYING OR SELLING? Caîl Paul the Whitby Specialist at 668-3800 recently conducted their own survey of the proposed school boundary area and found only 15 of 120. parents (12.5 per cent) favoured the- modified year (eight were undecided). Eleven (9.2 per cent> planned to Relax in your own sauna. 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(90eu5) 619-9500 FAX: (905) 619-3334 P.S. Ask about *i making your [J home a 'STAR" IE Smyka told about 60 people attending a meeting at Pringle Creek Public Sehool last week. "If the wlAll le that we flot bave a modified calendar, w. won't have'a modified calendar. If people donet corne to the. registration, what's my alternative? What's Our alternative? Its only to have a regular calendar." Smyka said ites "very difficult" to gauge the Interest level rlght now, but believes there's "in the neighbourhood, of 170" parents supporting the modified year now and "that seema to be growing, as time goes on." 1The response from týwo registration sessions -- Jan. 20 for parents within the boundary area and Jan. 27 for ail of Durham - wilI deternune wbat path the sehool takes, Smyka said. He can't say how many registrants are required to go ahead with the *modffied. system, though, telling parents 'I don't make that decision; we wilI make it together - superinýendent, trustees - will make it together once we- have those figures in January. Many parents in the proposed boundary area - Garden Street east to, Thickson Road and Dundas Street north to Bradley Drive; east of Anderson, Manning - a the northern -border - were conoerned thefr 'cbildren will b. forced to attend the new school, even though their current echool is closer. "I would neyer have bought my bouse in an area where- I bad to send mycbildren te a public school that's in .the backyard of a bigh scbool, f one mother told. Smyka. 'T71his is a pilot project and the ids are the front-lime troops here and if's scary, said Pat Perkins. "I doni' want a bad drug deal going down and takring my kId... I don't want teusee the, weapons that are in that Anderson high ichool oming out on te that back proerty and baving sometbing bappen..." Perkrins continued. - "I don't want my child going' thre Iwfll keep them In Pringle Cre)anid I wilI do what I bave todo; iflIhave te s»Il my home and relocate te a bouse wltbin the boundarles of Pringle Cree k - chool, I will do so," said PerkIns. Traffic was another major concern. There'. no busing planned te the new'school and students wlll b. -driven in from ail over Durham se traffic "is going te b.e nuta," one mother said. -"Rlght no* It's deadly." The focus o fthe. new achool was te reduce overcrowding at Pringle Crek, McFarlane ýand Thornten schools,' another pointedout, but there's not enough childr.n in the boundazy area te fil it se students have te b.e brougbt in from outside.... the boundary. "How does region-wide registration address overcrowding in our community?" .Construction of the new sehool aliouldbe stopped and it should b. built in north Whitby wber. its really needed, sbe argued. You oen't "advanoe-build" a school in anticipation of future d.and, such as tbat from the n.w Broolin Meadows subdivision, pointed out Smyka. As for the. boundary area, he notes it basn't yet been approved by the. board and oeuld b. changed. Boundary areas are an issue with any new school, he said, but have te b. enforced te ensure a new facility is filled. The. proiniity to Anderson does carry seme risks, he adinits, but "the image we have of teenagers with horna is unfair te that group at large." Smyka said being close te a bigh sehool will have a lot of advantages, such as being able te use Andersons equipment, and facilities and havi ng-. senior students serve as. teachers' assistants. Staggered start and finish times should help' with the 1 traffic congestion, as should traffl c lights at Anderson and Crawforth wbich the Town basm been requ.sted, te instail, he said. For blanket coverage of ALL the homes and/or businesses in Whitby OR to selected areas only, call the Whitby Free Press - 668-6111. If you did.not get a flyer which is isted for full distribution, give usa oeil. iloes & uiler B roéklin Square. Boy Pizza. (Broolin) *Villagel of Broolin Homes Colouring Contest *(Brooln), Fn od&it (select) * HendersonBooks (select) _ _ _ _ _ _ mý