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graduates will show up ini post-secondaiy education fo 35 YEARS AGO without the appropriate skcills. fo the Thursday, April 27, 1961 edition of the Ninety per cent of ail new fuHire jobs over the past five WUB 'YwEEKLOY NEWS years have required college or unive r graduation. We Ontario County Council will study modernization of the 108-year-old Court House on should be preparing students in bigh echool for college or Centre Street. unierit. e holdbegivIngthmheaden k11e Whitby Chamber of Commerce wants to host an industrial and agricultural exhibitin. needed for succese at that level. Former Whitby businessman Russell Horner disappeared after a boat trip ftrm the harbour. (3ood Megh chools aIse help develop attitudes of succese.* Rev. John McL,,eod is the new pastor of Whitby Baptist Church. In "ii regard, highsehool co-op prograrne (exposure te the1 .1 workplace) eau help euormously, by aise, eneouraging a 100 YEARS AGO worl viw byondMeJbs.Goodco-p pogras ùe Afrom the Friday, May 1, 1896,edition of the teacher contact to help shape sud fbeus the learning WBITY CHRONICLE opportunities. a The Brooklin cheese fact;or re-opens for the spring settouLi on May 4. Suobelen's plan to provide bigh echool eredits for part- 0 The Hon. Thonmas Greenway, Premier of Manitoba, was a guest of John Dryden, Ontario's Urlne and summer work is a bad ides. It may have appeal Minister of Agriculture, at his home near Brooklin. for a bigh ochool dropout who became a inillionaire. - A new windrull bas been erected at McGeary's livery stable. It is made of steel and 60 feet But the sdiool of bard hnoeks bas a horreudous dropout high. rate. This plan could have enormous coïs 10 year down 0 James Johnson's house on Green Street was sold to Mrs. George Wallace for $820. 1? *IJJj I. *Wheby ,ý ree Pm-s Wëckrdày aY 1, 196,Paoé7 .. .....,. . U Bad idea 1%~e Changes bemng wrought in education these days a re nothing short of astounding. EduatonMinister John Snobelen would like to cnt ont a sinf mn rount ofclassroorn tirne and shlow credit for part-Urne job activity. Pýrevious governrnents had already signed the death warrant for OAC or Grade 13 credits. We cannot blame Snobelen for that. Let us simply acknowledge that usually OAC credits are required for entrance to university, and that general level Grade 12 credits are supposed to be sufficient for Cormmunity college entrance. But that said, we should note that those who complete OAC credits almost double their chances of suoeess at college. But today rd rather diseuss the part-Urne job proposai. This rnay be known as the _____________________________________ McJobs credit.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ffrst of alet me say thatlI tbink this is a bad idea. Let me tell you irnyaosons for believing go. ' .zM-.azM-- ym-.zM ' e Mr. Snobelen bas been quoted as saying that much learning takes place outside of the classroom. At most part- Urne jobs, students read, write, do surne - ail those skils thiat ecltaught thern te do. Shouldn't they receive credit for doing that at work, rather than being cooped up i oore stuflfr clsssroom reading Shakespeare? Iii. a lot ofbad ideas, this one bas the hint of sometbing Positive; it would b. easy to be carried away. Yes, applying1 skills helps you learn them better, yes, we use acquired ekils. every day;, and true, isome situations you rnight just lesrn additional ekille............. Maybe. In rny fifl-Urne day job, rm mnvolved in several field placement prgrarn fbr ommrunitycoilege students. These poansplace colege students in working situationsfrn three te 14 weeks. Most of these are unpaid, and happen only after the students have ail but completed two or three years of a college prograrn. The longer the placement prograrn, the more successful graduates are in findingfulI- Urne related erployment. Ail this works best- when students have cornpleted etudies and are ready for college graduation. What makes such prograrne succesfu? 1) Skilîs. If a etudent doesn't have them, nothing happens. 2) Attitude. Ditto - if a student bas skills but a lousy il