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The Acton Free Press Wed September 1976 Abandon site A Teachers removed from classes dhii on b and d after f enrolment below projections With elementary school enrolment over 1 students short of projections Board of Education has been forced to put full lime teachers a special pool from which supply teachers will be drawn The teachers in this special pool including three full time and one part time who teach at North schools have been removed from their regular class rooms because of the short age of students Based on pro jections which have proved to be far too high the board finds it has hired too teachers Thursday the board en dorsed an administration plan which will sec the ex cess teachers take over supply teaching duties when needed attached towork with children at various schools on special projects and simply wail for enough resignations to create openings for them in the school system They will continue to receive their regular pay Director of Education Em Lavender said projections of this ear elementary enrol merit are between 1 and students above Ihe act number I hat are attend classes He noted on only one other time in the seven year history of the county board have the projections been so wrong In 1969 the board faced a similar crisis Projections called for to attend elementary school Ihis year while only 31 pupils actually showed up for classes lavender explained during March and April of year the board its students enrolment pro jections for the next school year and hires teachers based on those projections tt have make hen since we cant staff schools after the stud arrive for classes he said Lavender explained that each year somewhere be tween and J2 teachers re CORPORAL RANDY MORTON 26 of Acton receives a message on the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force radio net at the force headquarters in Damascus He is one of 150 Canadians serving with the N force which separates the Syrian and Israeli armies on the Golan Heights He is the son of Mr and Mrs R Morton of R R Acton Canadian Forces photo sign take leaves of absence on maternity leaves and It Is hoped that trend will continue so the full time teachers who have become supply teachers will soon be back in the classroom full time When these teachers doing supply teaching they will bo attached lo de- gnated schools and working with he children Lavender explained Because of I he tremendous shortfall in Ihe number of students the pupil teacher ratio in has also had to be adjusted Instead of the normal pupils per teacher ratio in there is now a ratio of pupils per teacher Lavender admitted the administration any Ihe project ions are so fur out although there arc a number foe torsi which have contributed to the discrepancy One the one hand Lavender noted 1 pupils have left the elementary but 151 new students entered The board had anticipated the high number of new students entering the system but the number of departures has been a surprise Lavender explained many more pupils were expected because of the many homes in in Milton North Burlington com i last ntcr and read I for occupancy but still public school sys tern has lost 172 students to Hilton separate schools while have returned to Hilton elementary schools from separate schools The board suffered mother big loss of students when 138 departed from the public school for private schools and at the same lime students returned from private schools factor which has forced the chopping of classes reorganization of many schools is the fact 1 pupils have moved from one school to another this year We ha made these moves now because if it was left longer it would have made adjustments for pupils much tougher explained He noted schools in North Hilton have escaped the reorganizal on relatively un scathed compared to those in Policing will cost Halton taxpayers Policing of the former Township will cost taxpayers more money Discussing a take over of the last area of the region which isn policed by Itcgonal Police Police Commission chairman Glenn noted the force hasn received any official word yet from Queen Park thai it must expand into Nassagaweya by March 31 of next year However commission believes press reports saying the force must expand are true Regional councillor Jack Itaftis asked if it would be an added burden to the local lax payer even though the province plans to up the police to from per person per person Mayor Harry Barrett said the expansion would certainly cost taxpayers money since the extra per person would only cover per cent of the expansion cost oners Bill and William War render both noted it was no surprise the regional force must expand nto Nassaga weya since there have been broad hints warning his would happen from the province Barrett pointed out is so sure this expansion would eventually happen the new communications net work on which the police are spending was designed so could be tied in We went and Acton at Hie request of Hills but Milton didn want us to go into since Mayor Anne thought the OPP was doing just fine building an empire Now we have been ordered in mere so Queen s Park will have to make peace with Mayor Barrett ex plained pointed out gaweya residents have been paying for regional police and haven I been gelt it He explained the regional force plans now for serving right now are based on what kind of service the has been providing He predicted four or ve additional officers would be needed and two extra Barrett warned Ihe police may discover that once the police take ovet residents may expect a greater level service said force is aware s may happen and noted the initial impact of taking over an extra patrol area won I be the only factor which must be considered What develops once we arc in there is important It could mushroom After we go in we will have to assess things ve might have lo add another detective for District One at the Georgetown head quarters The could always call on Toronto OPP detectives said BEAVER LEADER Andrea Sharpies enjoy ed the candy floss at the Acton Pell Fair Need Appliance Service REFRIGERATION and APPLIANCES SALES AND SERVICE Ranges Air Conditioners Refrigerators Dryers Olympic Sales 175 Mary St Washers Dishwashers Phone 8786772 or 8273853 We sell Burlington and be cause tan ties in he number of homes which would be occupied part icularlly in Georgetown and Milton forced the schools to hire fewer teachers than they were entitled to according to projections We are studying this to set why our projections are so for out We just don know the answers What has happened to the population of in the last year Regional Chairman Allan Masson may have part of the answer Trustee Tony Goodyear ob jected to the formation of the teacher pool and said he and many taxpayers believe is just a way of paying people who really working Superintendent of tion John noted that under the collective agree ment between the board and its teachers redundant staff can be let go but a board mis calculation in the number of teachers needed doesn I make the extra teachers redundant so they have to be kept on Ihe payroll Lavender said he would cheerfully leave things just as they were think the board would have sat still for a pupil teacher ratio of 3 pupils per teacher Another factor in the lack of students is the completed homes in is high properly axes which the hoard is mostly responsible for Trustee Richard said He continued that there Is sloppy workmanship In many new homes which are being built and bo people are re luctant to buy them This all goes back to recent years In schools when proper standards haven been and the mean of responsibility ignored he said Boich assured board the teachers who are in the pool now won t be there very long He noted Ihot since Ihe report was filed with the board deal with Ihe crisis early Thursday openings had been found for ihrce teachers Trustee Tom Watson said he Ihoughl the pool of teachers plan was the only solution to a difficult pro blem In spite of demands from Regional Council for full and fair comparisons of landfill sites Halton Region Public Works Committee has recommended drilling on sites and D only after drill ing on Site is complete Site is Ihe committees favorite site at the Britannia Tremaine area Sites and D are situated on High way west of and east of Highway north of the proposed Highway respectively Council at its last meeting requested Ihe consultants prepare silo one invest of site D drilling on sites and D and con designs at sites B and subject lo approving costs Reporting to the committee Wednesday consultant Wells of M Dillon Ltd said work would cost an estimated resource recovery now stand at about An additional to provide the requested information as well as another sum of about 000 for environmental assessment board hearings will run the cost up to about before the purchase of land or the development of a site Although Ihe matter was not on Ihe agenda the com discussed it for more than an hour 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