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issuefilled education beat was anything but peaceful in 1978 The education la considered by reporters be a fairly placid one with not much controversial nature and little which could aspire a spot on ihe front page the local newspaper It there is one thing the education beat In Ha It on has Item in the lastl year it is not placid There many dramatic some even nay radical changes in the education system in ilallon in the programs oilers and those proposes The board of education with many challenges In the Inst year not ihe least of which hat been maintaining quality education without Increasing costs In the early IJ7Ua It was cosy to demand l hat the cost of education be reduced because education budgets were high then in an attempt lo provide quality education for the vast flow of children who were the result of the baby boom Now enrollment is declining and the public is singly asking why Ihe tost of education is declining apace The first and most obvious response is that offering one class per week costs the same in basic equipment when it is held lor children as It costs for today It still requires a a classroom books for those basic requirements has been increasing decreasing In loday a Increasingly job oriented society where Ihe hoal of an education is swinging once more towards providing a student with the skills necessary to find a job Staff Comment by Taylor courses with practical equipment and hands on training are becoming necessary l- tiling a classroom electronic calculators to leach students how opera It hem Ik not to rcduie the budget for education Ieoplc are hesitant reduce education to a paint where Ihe uty Show me how this program will better educate my children Vet in effect I his is what administrations in boards across the province arc being required to do by the pressure of budget I would suggest that It is being done haphazardly hut under financial restraints people proposing new ideas or programs suggestions arc being asked directly or Indirectly to demonstrate figures exactly how much of a better person his particular program make a student This is not say thai cost restraint is wrong or necessary There Is no need to spend ISO on a new program In schools if can be done just as well for Dill Cost restrictions nave forced trustees and administrators to come up with new methods of meeting needs of the students in their charge In many cases the new methods have had great advantages and can be made work for the student Take the proposal build addition t School for Ihe use as a vocational high school for the students in North I la I ton This was first proposed early in the year as a way of gelling increased space for students without incurring the cost of a new building IS1IHM Dy building an addition on School for the leaf the board has several goals They will be able use existing and save on the cost erecting a totally new building The students in the northern half of the region will have bus rides to school greatly reduced in length But in the abstract the students of School will have a chance to mm students their own in the uscof facilities and in aflcr school activities will provide students with an opportunity lo learn about being handicapped and perhaps give them a little more respect for those who have to cope with being different The decision to twin Public School Joseph Gibbons School in Georgetown and Public School with Robert Little School in Acton was another move made la an attempt to reduce costs by trimming the administration rather than the classroom budget In each case a viceprincipal look aver administration duties and classroom duties in lieu of a principal Parents who originally apposed the idea have adopted a wail and see altitude over the program The board did not spend the whole of looking at ways of culling costs on programs or reducing on programs implemented The board mode some revisions in it goals and objectives and will be devoting the first part of to examining its ilong range and short term priorities possibly re ordering these priorities The education Is being called Into question and nowhere is more op parent lhan in the proposal Howard principal brie that a course in parenting be in in Schools The decision as to whether or not the course will be incorporated into the curriculum will depend on two mam questions where Ihe money will from and whether or not the teaching to parenting skills should he a concern of the educational system While the board ad ministration has not com its study of the proposal it appears that other provincial in to the minlstrv of education such Lhe minis try of community and services could be proached tor funds to operate the program or the basis of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure If students received education on It might relieve the pressure on social agencies which must deal with the results or poor parenting The question of whether parent education Is a responsibility of the school system is a vastly more emotional Issue with some people coming down hard on the side of the family teaching values and some believing that certain values traditionally considered concerns of the family are not being dealt Villi These people argue that in such issues as sex education and parent education in the curriculum is not interfering with the family but simply moving into the vacuum in areas parents are not dealing with Most of the issues being dealt wilh by the board right now particularly those such as negotiations on staffing with lis teachers seem very short turn when compared wilh the question of lhe purpose of education the limitations as to what will be included in the curriculum It seems likely lhe students who pass through the system in lhe next years will be more affected by what ihey re taught lhan by lhe number of people In the classroom while it being taught YOUR WEEK AHEAD By Forecast Period January ARIES Midweek looks favorable tor speculative Mar Apr I matters A improvement in man and domestic affairs is likely TAURUS Parental relationships are on a more Apr secure footing Home improvements or real est should fare well GEMINI Wishful thinking becomes realm Helpful May June 20 suggestions from a or neighbor can be turned to profit MOONCHILD Caution in financial dealings is urged at June July this over optimistic attitude can More prestige is in dajs and weeks ahead This week gives an idea of belter things in store like to give the shirt off back to 2 one in need discretion gam Harmonious social relations bring new in and people in lo life Hopes fulfilled mji in the limelight this week probable in the nature of an honor or promotion on the job Jewels knowledge arc En I lightened understanding brings deep sat can be fortune credit si be at issue Make sure accounts are in windfall be on the back burner Prosperous trends bring good relum- I Shire with mate or partner Affluence or issoenles brings peace I urb the I me Where doing in sense good he ill CROSSWORD 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From the Honoring lop and ihe leaves of hemp plant comes marijuana hashish commonly referred lo as hash is dried cake resin produced from lops leaves of female plani A reddish brown oil from plant is also sold under name of liquid hash or honey nil The mood and percepilon change the high 1HC Phi is available as easy in gel here in Georgetown or anywhere else for mailer as cning lo lhe corner siorc for a jug i f milk Il is impossible Iry in tell someone Is a regular poi smoker lis fur him or her as a mailer of government has been more in duly of informing the public in For msiance Hie Kir conn f poi is SO per higher Hum tobacco who shows fr he roof nips of danger of cancer me nchiiis or lung disc ise elm passes ihrough body in approximately mil 1U hi ingrodieni inMissr does known yet alcohol is us pan Hie is completely en lo body When the drinking was lowered piece f heal one maw in was as say we liltrally mid I him drink Tin somehow backfired The grculcsl danger in poi as far as sec it in lis use during growinp years and ihe years When kids use grass as a social cop out never learn to cope with ay s society Why cope just Years pass in a hazy oblivion doc nol keep up Rood ides docs keep up op pea ranees They lose energy confuted foggy thinking and lack of interest in any planned supposed story of young on who put the baby in oven and the in crib true Who knows but what do know Is poi produces kind of a haze its more possible How do you tell a hid or 13 who feels good tokmg away he or she is messing with fire somcyoungiersdogoon in ihemselves To the forming mind which in Its early years I have a heck of a lot in thinking goes something like this If a or two make me feel this good I wonder what the feeling would be with the list of posslbilincs is endless uppers downers speed LSD and hard care narcotics mor plune and heroin to men I ton only a few some kids maybe yours will go on Those who argue the harm lessness of poi remind me of he occasional drinker who sips on a glass of wine now and tin how far removed from heartache and heartbreak of ihe alcoholic or lies We are a drug using i won change in role is of our children fuiurt undersiond the full impact of legalizing ycl ishcr I behove possession of small amounis or rfr should be decriminalize I lurgc in unit no rs lire ihe I west form of plinei and nothing Ik that will lessen legal fur Ihcm Hit rs ire r in bee he desire tie pirioflhi i small amount of grass shi uld give bin again abuse should be prosecuted The number pnis users In iheir early iwen ties and laic teens ihai smoke up iheir own little ones is horrifying isn I little Johnny so when high personally 1 give lash people of such stupidity The that will ever happen this country and definitely downfall would be legalize mariju ana Give suckers lhe answer To piraphrasc Mane lfihcres no bread lei them smoke up won know the difference The masses that use cope are the same crowd ihm Isn I one killer enough Drinking and driving is a drinking inking and driving is Insanity Forty six per cent of Canad ijnsapparemly warn poi legal lied thai me ins per of he Canadian population Is wi increase the odds If allow vour govern men legalize marijuana as lujucr is now legalized say of jour children and iheir children and will come tumb ling down and franklv no one care our youth will be in a of mindlessness while wuscurnedso clearly in two great wars goes New King Variety owners promise popular handscooped ice cream Big Some grasshoppers can jump about times lhe length of their bodies King Variety In Georgetown has a new owner Dave Eckford look over from owner Ted and Helen a month ago and arc settling in nicely The Eckfords live In alternate hours in the store so lhat one of can be home to look after their preschoolers while the her is working The couple were partners In a similar store in New Toronto our years ago It and Mr Eckford went to driving a trailer We wanted to gel back into Mr Eckfordsald like Georgetown It much more friendly here It was all Kurean residents around where our old store was so it altogether differeni The will continue lo be a week operation io9pm but he slight change in urs during Ihe summer Among lhe changes the Eck fords plan make wilt be the iniroduciion of hand scooped ice cream cones in the new Wc used sell of in lhe summer so we hope to sinri it here he said He on changes he hopes hi make In coming weeks inly thai a few had already been made and would lie others Mr said lhal Ted is now working in ram pi on sell nig cars lull the couple has left ihecimmunlly The Largest Supermarket in the World WANT ADS Whatever Youre looking something for you in the Want Ads NEW COOWNER DAVE ECKFORD TOWN OF HILLS REMINDER NOTICE THE TOWN OF HALTON HILLS DOG TAGS due and available at MUNICIPAL OFFICES MORSE PRO HARDWARE PRINT OFFICE SUPPLIES ERICS DOMINION HARDWARE STEVENS GENERAL STORE GENERAL STORE HOME HARDWARE LICENSE FEES ARE 1 Female or male 2 Spayed female or Neutered male 3 Kennel License 36 Main St S Georgetown Mill St Acton Mill St Acton Church St E Acton Market Centre Ontario Ontario 134 Guelph St Georgetown AS FOLLOWS 1000 700 In accordance with By law and Its amendments every owner of a dog on or before the day ot February ol each year or within days of becoming the owner of a dog after the day February shall register each dog with the collector and apply to him for a license and tag for each dog Every person who falls to comply with Section 2 or Section of this By law Is guilty an offense and upon conviction is liable to a fine not more Fifty dollars exclusive of costs and every such fine shall be recoverable under the provisions of the Summary Convictions Act R S O 1970 Usher A C T Licensing Officer Town of Halton Hills