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For information call: 844-0881 You can take the Community DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON {tic Education cuts are getting closer and closer to the classroom and while they shouldn't be too noticeable this year, next year is a whole new chal- lenge, Halton Board of Education director Bob Williams told Halton's Council of Home and School Associations last week. "This is my least favorite topic, the I993 budget," said Williams, opening his address to a dozen Halton Home School Association representatives at Percy Merry Public School. The budget was half the topic - the other half, the impact in the classroom and on students. Earlier this spring the board approved a $291 million budget - a By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oak ville Beaver Staff Cost cutting could to hit classrooms next year THE OAKVlLLE BEAVER tried to be sensitive to needs, but we're well beyond the point in time where we can make the cuts we have to without having an impact in the classroom," he said. Oakville Ward 4 trustee Penny Siebert, who served on the 1993 finance committee as co-chair, told the Beaver the general public appears ready to accept cuts. However she also said the cuts are nearing the class- "We're kidding ourselves if we think we can do it without impacting the classroom," said .ebert, a board representative on the Halton Council of Home and School Associations. Williams said cuts made in 1993 definitely had an impact on every classroom - although the board has tried to make that impact felt as little 2% spending increase over 1992 and a 3.4% boost in the average 'millrate across Halton. "It took a fair degree of cutting from existing resources to get down to that level," said Williams. "There's a myth many in the public have that there's lots of fat in the school system and that we should cut a whole bunch of staff out. We've room as possible. The challenge will be to do with less next year and continue to main- tain the absence of negative effects on students. Space camp was a real experience (Continued from page 1) Laycock is now awaiting a video tape made at the camp of her stay which she intends to use in presen- tations to her classmates and a "space night" for her family. Since her return home, Laycock has had to "come down to earth." “It was great there, it's kind of bor. ing here," she laughed. While the students had to devel- op, draw. research. write about and present to others a lunar base, Laycock also got to see the Saturn V and the Blackbird. the fastest air- V and me Blackbird. the tastes! alr- plane in the world whose top speed is top secret. {may our sumptuous Sunday fyrunck in the unique setting of Glen Aliliey iidftyuli festaumnt overlooking the 180i Note. We 97a an extensive lid andeolTlhdret law induling ram M Manama mania, Wham: f 'tf mutation hon 11:00-1:oo. Join usforanepetiztegchoicgqfounuatm1sonulkpricas, Jen/daily in the picturesque setting gfour main mtaurmt. The Right Choice ForA Bright Fug? 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The board's teaching staff has gone down to 2,500 from 2,600 and staff has been reduced within the PTR (Pupil-teacher-ratio) boosting class sizes slightly, said Williams. There are fewer resource staff in the schools as a result of a reduction in consultative staff from 63 to 48 in I993. ll "For those who say why not get rid of all 48, it shows a very naive opin- ion, in my view, of what it takes to run "They described it than a speeding bullet." detected on radar," Laycock. time she grew accustomed to call- ing the washroom. "waste manage- ment" and windows, "earth studies" - not to mention the heavy southern accents of Alabama natives and those of other students from California to Missouri to Montreal. Astronauts' food - and the camp's cafeteria food - aren't rec- ommended by Laycock. She still has a freeze-dried strawberry that During the military-style week at space camp, Laycock lived in a dorm known as a "habitat." IN that time she grew accustomed to call- Nhi 1rd m II 1n l1 IN co ll Ittt Witl which represents approxi of the board budget. ha 1m a] ll ll ns believes may end up ted by the NDP), the , into it (staffing cuts) in rigorous way", said the mtr iff) the II Jll lf ll H H Ill provincial bud aid William it ll; 4t ne oo ll' It can't be explained ll as If ISS Sl 100 full through " lf) it il tual growth and nd up 1mm Aster if P1 ons lake ll It M ofl h a school not what With reduced bv 10 board must try tt mate reort ond daily Supplies like textbooks and library resources are down 10% in 1993 with staff having to determine priorities have 82 schools half a million dollars doesn't go very far for purchasing technology," said Williams. Williams said the system has been responding well to the poor economy with the major unions working out more keenly than in the past. Computer funding has been cut from $2 million to $500,000. "It sounds like a lot but when you "good" flexible solutions with the board without making use of collar. tive agreement provisions that could put up major obstacles in the continu- ing reallocation of staff around the region. " The studenfalso became familiar with the camp's rocket shuttle part and its various rocket displays; Students participated in a scavenger hunt for various rockets during their stay and in that, learned that the wheels of a lunar rover are made. from piano string wire which enables it to travel through the thick, mud on the moon. . Williams said, "The I994 budget will have to be substantially reduced, there will be fewer resources than we have now in 1993." looks like red sawdust and describes vanilla ice cream as tast- ing like powdered milk. Still, she said, astronauts can now plan their own menu, even lobster if they like, as opposed to old-fashioned food that saw nourishment squeezed out of a tube-like toothpaste. Some recommended space camp activities include astronaut training equipment like the Multi Axis which never goes in the same direc- tion twice so your stomach doesn't have time to rebel. The Five Degrees of Freedom exercise saw students spun side to side simulating astronauts' cockpit experiences. As payload specialist on a simu- lated Endeavor shuttle mission, Laycock kept everyone involved on-Iine and called abort missions when necessary. "There were lots of problems because as you dealt with things, the people running it would keep throwing in more problems," sht said. - "lt gave her a sampling of what astronauts have to endure just in training and not on a mission," said Laycock's mother. with The one-sixth gravity chair.' allowed students to simulate weightlessness. "There's this chair and you're buckled in. Then you jump and it takes so long before you come down," said Laycock. upport hi But at il The h rmt ment )utatlon rt staff as possible. ' e board has a hiring freeze on taff resources rearranged during nity leaves or resignations and ay N il mm hild system," said Williams. “It's sensible organizations do." .' the instructional assistants llillf ng may be done every sec- in the schools instead of ,1! iris Williams said the hold onto as many May many I993