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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Wednesday September Page Do we really want to get back to basics To the editor of Tho Herald Is reply to all those articles adeeming for the return to the three in education Sit down for a minute all you people and try to remember your own school days Sit down and try to remember the boure countless hours you pent in the classroom talk of the good old days Try to remember the way things really were when you were a child The way you wens bored to death by the lessons you had to memorize in the classroom when all you wanted to do was go outside and play Don der that a waste Sitting bored and frustrated at the age of ten in a classroom Is it right Was that really learning Or are we as adults afraid to really admit to ourselves that our schooling was the boring bell that It really was What was your favorite class When I was a child that most favorite class of most of the children was art I wonder why The education system in It stills based on fantasy That being the object of schools is to leoch children to learn Thai we have to tench children Children arc bom learning We are not teachers for children but rather guides on a tour When you arc a guide on a tour your Job Is not to tell people where to look and make them see what you wont them to see but rather point out interesting things to look at along the If we treated people on a tourist boat the way children are treated In school the tour is industry would suffer rapid decline Isn t It time our children got the same rights we give each other Don you think It s time we stopped bullying our children with the good old days and the three rs and took a good look at how much a waste of time we thought school was back then that is to say I thought was back then Wasn all that good now was it I mean let be a little honest Tor change Most of school as remem i answer the to hear No opinions Then was right then was Any child with any identity of his or her own was in If you thought things out a little differently you one or became discipline problem This was especially true in the younger grades The teacher had the right answer You having the right jnswef would please the teacher and get you more The teacher was the boss The object of the game was lo be liked by teacher Proud grandparents Eastern Ontario Summer Skating Competitions took place at Ice Centre High lands Scarborough Aug 13 13 Local grandparents Mr and Mrs Elmer Hill 10 McNabb St are once again proud to say that Brenda Hill won the silver medal on Saturday going on to the finals Sunday placing sixth There were ladies in their particular event Pre Novice Ladies Lynda Hill 11 entered in the Juvenile ladies and received the bronze medal placing third Two other friends also from Darlene won silver Interpretive and Bar Butler made it to the finals in the Pre Novice La CVCA ski rentals Credit Val parks and re creation advisory board called For quotations on purchasing 100 sets of crosscountry ski equipment to rent at Terra Cotta Const Area Information officer Joan Rollings said that of four firms questioned for skis boots poles and bindings were the lowest price Mrs Rollings said there Is need for crosscountry ski equipment About per cent of our phone calls are from persons asking If ski equipment is available she Also she said costs would not increase since a person rents and is working on the weekends any If wire not then all kinds of tittle to you like being in the class In front of tin oilier being sent to tht office and many many little jjoodus How many ore being run like thii today And you want a return to that kind of tun 1 ask you seriously are out of your mind So the object of the game was to mcmorjzi the right answers and please the leach by being able to produce on demund That was It I thing everyone has fit of nostalgia over the font old days when learnin was ieanun simply because lliey art good old days past Come come people it time we all grew up a little and look a good look at the good old days and give they deserve How about thank god that over 1 hope my kids never have to go through that I thai a little closer lo the truth Bury the damned three r To with them Let stop putting our kids through the some crap we went through just because we went through it Let all grow up a little and stop all this talk of child discipline In the schools How would you like it if your boss came up and boxed your cars because vou were talking on the job You d probably punch him in the nose Give your children same re The three rs discipline what happening to my child Well you should ask And the answer Maybe a small piece of a huge Iceberg we all have to lookat is answer The answer will be poor I tec you This Is a big problem Much loo big for one man lo describe fully even as well as attempt to solve All I can say is that some of the most creative minds In the world are In those classrooms They re bringing you home pictures of people with red faces and purple skin paint trees orange and the skies green Their lions are limitless The great est Imaginations in he world and we arc responsible for harnessing and in some cases destroying those Imaginations as our was harnessed and sometimes destroyed I that a little closer the truth What the hell does ABC matter to a child who to paint orange Or docs it even count What mat to Iht child Or docs what the parents want count more than what the child wants Is the object of education to help a child to learn for his or her self or is It more orientated to please parents and fulfill social obligations with read in and writing Who is Important one in the school The teacher The parent The child Is learning getting eight oulof ten on a test Having the right answer for the teacher This Is education This is exploring something and learning from exploration sound right to me How about you Sound right to you Is that Ihe role of being a child school Phase the teacher Pass the tests Get good check and use Crest and you II turn out okay That s life hat what we re telling our children Ah you say it can I be hat bad Take a good Come down out of the trees and Inn good eh I dldn think so Well sometimes it hurts to face the truth but you know we better before wt art shooting off our big mouths about three r and sacrifice another gen to the same stupidity wewert sacrificed Letsnot teach our children to learn but watch them learn for themselves and help hem when they need and want it Let advise our children in stead of order them Lets be a little more humane with our children and recognize their rights and who knows we may just get a Utile more humane with other Solo hell with the three ft and bring on Ihe green skies Bill Clint HEARING AID CENTRES GEORGETOWN Mirktlpuci Optical Jill Ron optician Main St J Haung A Hearing Problem Problems With Your Hearing Aid Mr Burke will bo In Georgetown Friday Sept from 12 noon Acton Prlday Sept r HEARING AID SERVICE Planning to borrow 2500 or more Compare our offer Dlonllo luggage 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