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* . > . are that Mrs. @ proving Hospital, Mr. ion week. a Rome for the : Mr. & Mrs. rit Ih cin Hai . & Minister's "Tell Me The Port ' Session Conway 1265 Coming The Port . > * z + ' 4, - IN NEW BUILDING 5 i E i ue rr : 1 | - CENTRALLY LOCATED - AIR CONDITIONED - HEATED Please reply Box 10, Port Perry Star, Port Perry PROVINCIAL OFFICE 0.S.S.T.F. a FRE 5 ene WINTER FUEL Money on DX Premium Quality Fuel Oil 'DX FUEL OIL CALL US TODAY FOR PROMPT, COURTEOUS SERVICE THIS HAS BEEN SAID... . Some actions being contemplated and effected by some Boards in an attempt to meet the guidelines have been the closing of schools, the reductions of programmes, the raising of the P.T.R., the reduction of the number of non-teaching employees, the curtailing of transportation privileges and the dismissal of fully certified teachers at the end of the current school year. '| think the Province was wrong Says Metro board chairman Bruce Bone: "I think the Province was wrong' Says Metro board chairman Bruce Bone: Speaking at a rally organized by the teachers, Bruce Bone criticized the province's decision to "arbitarily impose ceilings across the province without any concern for local prob- lems." OSSTF DISTRICT I7 Bill Fairburn, president of the Ontario County federation, said in a memo to district 17 members, that c mt's action ha met_with wide public approval but as yet the public has not been made aware o wll effect of the guidelines. Mr. Fairburn said in the memo, spending guidelines Board Discounts Teacher Strike Cyril Taylor, admin- istrative assistant to the Ontario County Board of Education, said today the possibility of area teachers going on strike May 3 was "not likely". Ontario secondary school teachers at their convention in Toronto voted in favor of strike action May 3 to protect the ceiling put on school board expenditures. Representatives from the Ontario County Secondary School Teachers' Federation could not be reached for comment today as they are still attending the con- ference. Problem MILTON MOWBARY Now we are faced with provinctally imposed ceilings on expenditure. While many boards throughout the province are in a worse plight with respect to compliance with these ceilings than is the Ontario County Board, there is great difficulty in com plying, especially at the secondary level. It be- comes difficult to see how Spending Restrictions Criticized WRONG CUTS MADE Mr. Lewis questioned the 'The educational excellence for which Carleto T education department's method of cost cutting, through ceilings on board spending. Cuts are needed, he said, but they should be made in specific areas: administration, buildings, A. Harris, Chairman, educational television and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, About a dozen school trustees, members of citizen groups, and pol- itictans, including Liberal without impairment of the quality of education, If the result of the expenditur- ceilings is simply that we endeavour to cut expenditures blindly on an "across the board" basis without any particular concern to establish priorities the ceilings will be bad for the educational system. It is to be hoped that the current reassessment of educational practices made by present financial limit- ations may also lead to a better sense of the prior- ities involved in the use of the student's time. If it does, the ceilings on expenditures, while un- comfortable, will have had educational as well as financial value. education critic Tim Reid, faced an audience of about 400 at the rally, Mr. Reid drew enthusiastic applause when he suggested the department of education cut its staff by one-third to save funds. is noted has suffered a severe set -back' -- n 17, 1971 WHAT IS BEING DONE ? Sponsored by 0.S.S.T.F., District 17, Ontarie County Call Collect 668-3341 Ns. LA. Ae