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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, June 18. 1993 â€" 26 flalton Bord a As of September 1991, the Ministry of Education required all Ontario school boards to provide drug education in schools, starting in Grade 1. The Halton Board of Education was well ahead of the game. It satâ€" Poot Pointe® by Alan Kideckel Many people chlorinate their pool by dropping pucks into the skimmer basâ€" ket. This.can present several probâ€" lems. To begin with, the water around the basket contains an excessive amount of chlorine. Then, chlorine from the basket is going directly to the pump, filter ong heater in an unmeasured strength that will shorten the life of the equipment. An autoâ€" matic chlorine feederâ€"â€"â€"â€"and we have a number to choose fromâ€"â€"â€"can proâ€" vide up to 3 weeks of chlorine saniâ€" tizer. Further, the easyâ€"toâ€"use dial control valve lets you accurately adjust the rate of chlorination needed to Leep your pool sparkling. 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The Halton Catholic School Board is updating and revising its current tobacco, alcohol and drug program in Grades 4 to 10 to meet Ministry of Education guidelines. It it studying and will institute an ageâ€"related program for Grades 1 to 3 this fall. In developing a drug education policy, the Board included three major components: prevention of alcohol, tobacco and drug probâ€" lems; identification of and early intervention into problems among students for whom preventive efforts have been unsuccessful; disciplinary action. For all students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 13, the use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco and inhalants are prohibited, according to the policy. Subsequent infracâ€" tions can lead to suspension for a period of from three to five school days and, in particularly severe cases, expulsion. The Board adopted this policy four or five months ago and parâ€" ents will be informed about it this September. The DARE program is common to both school boards. Once a week for 17 weeks, two speciallyâ€" trained officers of the Halton Police Services taught 53 classes in most of the Catholic school and about half of the Halton Board‘s schools this year. The DARE program is applicaâ€" leader in drug education ble only to Grade 6 students who, it is felt, are at the age when they are most likely to meet the chalâ€" lenge of being introduced to drugs. Like the Halton Board‘s program, it contains much more than a "Say no to drugs" philosophy. It, too, tackles the core of the matter and addresses the reasons for starting drugs in the first place â€" lack of self esteem and peer pressure, to name only two. One of the major advantages of the program is the change of attiâ€" tude toward the police many of these students underwent.. They came to recognize their teachers as humans, not "the enemy" and came to look upon them in a far more positive light. "A lot of the kids had no social lifeskills at home. Just school," said Flameling. 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