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Raise drinking age trustees Board of Education has joined the Oxford board in calling for the drinking agp lo be raised Thursday trustees passed a motion supporting Oxfords letter to Attorney General Roy McMurtry Liberal Leader Dr Stuart Smith NDP leader Stephen Lewis and five MPPs urging the drinking age be raised Trustee Ivan Armstrong noted Oxford suggest a new drinking age but he favors 19 He said many felt was too stringent an age and many probably feel the same way today Armstrong said 19 would probably solve many of the problems schools are having with alcohol consumption by students The Ontario Public School Trustees Association has passed two resolutions which were sent to Education Minister Tom Wells urging the drinking age be raised Trustee Judy Alexander told the board Trustee Bert said the more motions that are passed the better He also urged calls for a higher drinking age should go to more provincial politicians than just Wells Halton agreed with Oxfords letter which said The present legislation has resulted in an unacceptable situation in terms of Its effect on health safety and mora lily STEVE PAPILLON AND Bill Break caught these three chinook salmon last week down at Bronte The fish averaged about 25 pounds each Hinton says Fire drivers who wont stop smoking as Bolch suggested We have to stop It He said something had to be done to ensure report to principals and the student Is put off the If there is smoking on school buses drivers should be fired according to Acton Esquesing Trustee Bert Hinton He says it is happening on buses in North Halton Thursday Board of Education received a letter from William Nurse Milton complaining about smoking on buses his children ride He claimed previous complaints to schools and the board had not solved the problem Superintendent of Instruc tion John told trustees a sign at the front of the bus says smoking Is prohibited It also sets out other rules of behavior He said when students smoke on buses the driver should report them to the principal Drivers can also order the pupil off the bus Boich said he hoped drivers would set a fine example and not smoke around students He also urged parents who hear from their children that students are smoking on buses to contact the principal Hinton said the problem t be solved as simply bus Adults can t smoke on buses and children might as well learn now they can smoke on buses either Hinton declared said a driver who won t enforce the board rules be driving He said he has heard of smoking on school buses in Halton Hills Trustee Ivan Armstrong said he has talked to Mr Nurse and the problem has now been solved Superintendent of Business and Finance Bruce Llndley said drivers are trying to enforce the no smoking rule but it Is hard sometimes to catch offending students Drivers are told they can smoke when students are on the bus he said Trustee Cam Jackson said there ore numerous reports drivers are smoking while waiting for students to board the bus Halton says keep grade 13 Despite rising costs Halton Board of Education doesn t want to see grade 13 dropped Thursday trustees rejected a call from Peterborough Board of Education to ate the senior grade in Ontario Peterborough noted other provinces and countries don t have grade 13 and many boards have garten kindergarten plus 13 grades totalling 15 years of public education The eastern Ontario boards letter to pointed out there Is great public concern about education costs and schooling cats up nine percent of Ontario Gross National Product compared to Just five or six percent elsewhere Peterborough asked trustee associations and boards to urge Queen Park to study the educational merits problems and Impact of telescoping courses of study to 12 grades above kindergarten Study of possible cost sav Ings and the social Impact of dropping grade 13 was also Superintendent of instruc lion John voted Halton studied the viability of grade 13 in 1973 but rejected the Idea of dropping It lie 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