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B12 The Acton Free Press Wednesday 1977 LARGEST FLAG ever made at Kennedys of Grin is this by 25 foot nylon monster It was ordered by the federal government It was hung from the side of the building so pictures could be taken Largest flag made at Erin Pay cut proposal What may easily be the largest flag ever unfurled In Canada has just been com by Kennedy of Erin the Internationally know can vas specialties firm It was made for the federal govern and Is feet long feet deep It was a real traffics topper when Kennedy Specialties staffers climbed to the roof and draped the huge flag over the south side of the building In the years he been In Erin proprietor Bob Dickson has been turning out flags by the hundreds some for as far away as Panama But for size this beats them all Seamstresses the pro ject included Eleanor Long heed Marshall Margie Shortlll Adams Linda Barbara Met calf Donna Smith Ann Groves and Connie Mrs Mrs Marshall are from Acton Police can go on school property Regional Police can now go on any Board of Education property Director of Education Em Lavender told trustees Speyside parents meet Help on way for to keep school Staff boozing teachers Parents took a first step to wards heading off a possible staff cut at School dunng a meeting in the school s library Monday evening A committee was formed to wnte a brief in favor of keeping six teachers at the school next fall The will be presented to Halton Board of Education Monday meeting was prompted by the announce ment in a school newsletter the week before that the school is losing one and a half teachers meeting chairman Weaver Milton said Mrs Weaver Eaton R 4 Acton and Sheldon of Fifteen Sidcroad called the meeting which 32 people attended including principal Norm Howell and school trustee Bert Hinton Based on the total enrol of 193 with the exception of a special education class next year s number will dip to about 156 according to projec lions Mr school is located on Highway midway between Milton and Acton The school has grades kindergarten to six The decrease in enrolment by children caused the loss of one teacher Mr told the group A half teacher was also lost through the splitting or grades Split grades is an arrangement when for example some grade two children are with some grade threes other grade threes are with grade fours some grade fours are with the grade fives According to Mrs Weaver some parents do not want more than 30 children in a class some do not like split grades and some do not like both Principal Howell said split classes do not stir anything in him us a The critical point is the number of groups a teacher can work with he said Groups ore defined roughly ling to their level of achievement in a task such as reading As the number of children increases the work load for the teacher increases Mr Howell said So what we are trying to do is carefully cut down the number of groups Principal Howell put the possible cut back in staff in context by informing the meeting Halton Board is treating Speyside School like all other schools in the region He he has seen mg enrolment shutdown class rooms twice before What htppening has happened here before Mr Howcllsaid Factors influencing the number of children going to Speyside include the opening of St Joseph s Catholic elementary school at Acton and families moving in the summer Eight children are confirmed as enrolling in the new separate school Mr Howell said Mr Howell also he felt quite sure if other Board of Education projections show the school has sufficient population that something will be done Meeting organizers prepared a petition to be pre sented to the board It reads I do object to the reduclidn in the mumber of teachers at Speyside for the coming year which effectively increases the class size to above pupils and also introduces split grades from grade two to five Seventeen signatures were on the hand written petition before the meeting started A total of 35 many of them hus band and wife signed by the end of the twoand a half hour meeting School trustee told the gathering their main con is to keep the school open another year The lion s pattern is to close small schools he said You re going out of bus in ess because you ve no grades seven and eights which are going to middle schools Mr said The trustee gave the parents verbal support and said he would fight with them He urged them to produce a sound brief to be presented to the board Organizers are having a follow up meeting next week to look at suggestions for beefing up the school s numbers Some of the suggested solutions included the shifting of the school boundary one line towards Brookville bussing nearby children who go to Milton schools to and also revising the pupil teacher ratio The is the relationship between the number of all the tion staff to the number of pupils Education staff includes teachers such as principals vice principals special teachers like shop and remedial reading plus the regular inclass teachers Last year ratio was 1 for elementary schools Mr Howell said This year the number is is set from negotiations between the teachers federation and the board If Speyside has a of 1 Mr Howell said it is be cause other schools have higher ratio Mrs Sheldon one of the meeting organizers said the Help is on the way for drinking teachers in Thursday Board of Education approved a program to help teachers who have drinking drug or emotional problems The program was proposed to trustees last month by Superintendent of Special services John Graham and Addiction Research dntion spokesman Peter Marks Marks told the board that probably over six per cent of Halton teachers have alcohol drug or emotional problems affecting their work and added the program was similar to those operated in industry Principals will receive some training in how to spot drinking and other problems in employees If they think there Is a problem they will be able to force the teacher to go for help Trustee Ivan Armstrong warned principals will run up against a stone wall trying to convince any teacher they have a problem with drinking He said workers won t seek help unless they arc threatened with Graham said the training manner of coming up with the PTR is unrealistic Shi suggested the group go after keeping the one teacher then fight for a better way of deter mining With taxes to education at cents on the dollar in Hills it frustrates me no end that It up to us to get a solution for the extra teacher Mrs Sheldon said principals v ill receive will focus on how to spot drinking problems resulting in poor work performance and they won diagnose the problem or prescribe treatment After there is a problem the principal sends the teacher to get help The teacher must go Hi added all teacher fcderatioas in support the program Trustee Bert said thi teacher federations should be running the program and not the board He said principals and ad can have the same drinking problems teachers have and wondered if the program would be available to trusties too said teachers who have drinking or emotional problems houldn be working in the school system t hi hired by the board in Morton said until start looking at is a disease society won t get anywhere in dealing with the problem Hi said as possibly the largest in Hilton the board should set an example trying to deal with cm drinking problems Trustee Bill objected to Armstrong concerns saying just because thi goal of the program might be difficult to t make it worthless He idded most businesses have programs to drinking imployies fclan jected to the fact a receiving help for a problem would still be on the job AND THE LUXURIOUS AUD1 100 and AUDI Fox WE ONLY HAVE ONE OVERHEAD BUT WE CAN GIVE YOU THE BEST OF TWO WORLDS AT BAZ MOTORS The Password is Savings AUDI FOX RABBIT DIESEL HONDA mpg- EPA Tests EPA Tests EPA Tests DROP IN NOW FOR A TEST DRIVE BAZ MOTORS LTD VOLKSWAGEN PORSCHE AUDI HONDA Sales and Service I Gutlph St Geoffttown 5216 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Ken to out the problem Hi said members of force felt they t eo on school without permission Board chairman Morton said making the police boards agent now clarified situ Supply teachers arc upset by prospect of iu per cent pay whir they don I leach two cons cutlvc A special board of committee studying teacher absentee ism recommended the first day of supply teaching is the least productive The com reasoned if a sub stitute teacher I work two consecutive days or more for the same absent in stmetor they should receive less pay The board will review the committees proposals Thursday Last Thursday Ihc Substitutes Teachers Association presented a brief objecting the suggestions Spokesman for the group I iuI said all teachers gone into and found the regular teacher left Trustee Judy Alexander adequate lesson plans He expressed the hope the board this a general teachers to leave experience better class preparations NOTICE All refuse normally picked up Thursday June 30th will be picked up 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