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B8 The Acton Fran Dee Board rejects study of elementary lunch service Board of Education has rejected the Idea of a special committee to 1 Into lunch services at elementary schools Trustee Dr Helen Howard Lock suggested Thursday a committee be set up to look into facilities services and costs of supervision of lunch time programs at elementary schools She said she has heard many comments regarding lunch programs at elemen tary schools and believes it will become more of a problem as more children can t go home for lunch because both parents work weather lb bad or they are bus students Trustee Howard Lock noted the board has no policy regarding lunch services at elementary schools and there is a great disparity between what Is being done at various schools Tho separate school board was Interested in joining In on Haltons investigation Trustee Cam Jackson revealed Several trustees objected to yet another committee being set up and Trustee Edna Robinson thought the joint healthschool committee should be the one to look into the problem Board vicechairman Noel Cooper said any problems with elementary lunch ser vices should simply be referred to the school cipal Trustee Bert Hinton said Individual research into any problems should be handled by board members and referred to principals He warned study by a com mittee of any problems was the first step towards cafeterias being built in elementary schools Problems can be sorted out by principals and if there was a standard procedure it would cause more problems for schools Trustee Judy Alexander Principals should be asked to be flexible and respond to parents concerns and problems According to Trustee Ivan Armstrong a committee would bring all kinds problems out of the wood work He has already heard from one group who wants construction done an elementary school lo fncill tate lunch services Lawson calls for second look SANTA ARRIVED at the Rockwood Post Office last Saturday to pick up some of the children mail Postal Clerk Ivy Ritchie happily helped him empty his box Local resident John Grinwis was just in time to personally deliver his letter to the Old Boy Term appointments out for Halton viceprincipals Board of Education has settled its controversy over whether term appoint ments for viceprincipals appointed in the future should be renewable or renew able There wont be any term appointments for vlceprinci pals Nearly a year after three year renewable term appointments for pats were Instituted they have been scrapped Term were started as a means of providing even temporary advancements In a time when enrolment Is shrinking and most and principals are young After several months of heated debate over the previous decision the board set up a special committee to look at the problem Thursday the committee consisting of Trustees Flor ence Don Long Crosier and Elaine Rhiem brought in a report suggest the threeyear nonrenew able term appointments be rescinded and replaced with three year renewable term appointments so excellent viceprincipals wouldnt be sent back to the classroom Crosier opposed the com mi tee recommendation and suggested the possibility of principals and vice- principals teaching classes so teacher classroom may be reduced Lavender said a survey of over elementary teachers has shown that out of a list of nine motivators term appointments stood It appears term appointments are not a significant motivator for teachers and the policy was to be a motivator Long said renewable term appointments were urged by the committee so excellent viceprincipals wouldnt be turffed afterthree years Trustee Judy Alexander said any form of term ap pointments was simply pulling the rug out from under people Trustee Ivan Armstrong said even If there Is a surplus of teachers the board should still try and get the best people for every job He described term appointments as playing musical chairs with people Renewable term appoint were deemed refreshing by Trustee Fred He thought it was a good Idea to bring a little competition into the boards system of promotion by having performance rewarded by renewal Trustee Bill said three year term appoint ments meant viceprincipals were reviewed only every three years instead of yearly The board has gotten Itself in a ridiculous situation Trustee Bert Help on way Help tson the way for the stalemated contracted negotiations between Separate School Board and its teachers The Education Relations Commission announced this week the appointment of Jane Develin to assist with the talks Ms Develin received a law degree from the University of Western Ontario and has been a law clerk to a Chief Justice of High Court She is now recusing law in Toronto and as assisted the Brant Lincoln and Slmcoe boards on behalf of he Commission in the put declared He said the board should revert to its old system of appointing viceprincipals and leaving them in the tlon promoting them to c pals or sending them back to the classroom if hey do a good job Turstees voted to drop term appointments altogether and revert to the old system Season s Greetings NIGHT the ages shines the wonder of a Holy Night May the true meaning of Christmas make your holiday bright Jon Hurst Electric ACTON Trustee Bill Lawson wants Halton Board of Education to take a second look at expand ing French elementary schools before Its too late He filed a report dealing with the expansion of daily French instruction beginning at grade four Thursday and his concerns will be dealt with in Lawson said there will be detrimental effects to middle and senior elementary school programs where minutes of French will be added each week and at the Junior elementary level where It will be minutes additional a week He warned teaching staff will have reduced prepara tion time with more French being squeezed into the elementary program Lawson also noted teachers won t be able to take classes for absent colleagues so there will have to be more hiring of supply teachers Another problem will be French will take away from other aspects of school pro grams whena schools budget is sliced up lawson also suggested expanded French could create a need for more segre gated special education classes At the junior level where no French la taught now Lawson predicted other courses will suffer He noted since French will be part of communications arts topics now dealt with In that course will have to be cut back He Bald addition of French means more rotary where either students move to another teacher or the teachers move around to different classes Lawson also predicted expanded French will mean some teachers are teaching all day and this may force the re introduction of recess Some remedial and counselling programs may have to be curtailed extra might be cut back students will see more teachers each day and librarians viceprincipals and principals may be required to teach more There will be a serious decline in staff morale If the French teachers do not main tain a teaching load equival ent to all other teachers he warned He also said there will now be three types of teachers- home economics Industrial arts and French which cant be declared surplus while there used to be Just two Lawson suggested minutes dally of oral French instruction beginning in grade six continue and the board continue planning for optional French immersion programs in the fall of lie called for the manda tory French program of minutes daily instruction beginning In grade four be withdrawn so it can be studied further He said he believes many trustees voted to expand French without fully under standing the Implications warned French is not in the best interest of corecurriculum and will only increase class sizes at a time when the board wants to cut class sizes Trustee Bert said he agreed with Lawson and believes the board should have listened to principals who wanted a much more moderate expansion of French under budget Operation of Haltons pub lic school system will appar ently cost at least less in than expected Superintendent of Business and Finance Bruce Llndley told Halton Board of Educa tlon Thursday that the cost of running all aspects of the ele mentary school system will likely end up costing between and 50000 less than was budgeted On the other side of the coin the board will have a deficit of about for operation of its high schools DECKING THE Christmas tree for the Friday night semiformal dance at Cen tennial are left to right Janet Anita Brace Sue Bilton Kathy and Gooyers A great time was enjoyed by all the Grade 8s who danced away the evening 1 a Police Village of Rockwood a Rockwood Hydro Board of Trustees and Staff EXTEND LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS for family home and workshop 10 Dewalt Radial M Arm Saw power shop from Decker a sensational gill or trie workshop Features a single voltage direct drive motor with manml molar brako Conlrols on top up front lor ease of operation blade provides a max imum depth cut Wen Router Kit Tiffany Style 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