The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

B6 Acton Free Press Wednesday Feb Board examining vacant classes With school enrolment He said the board would i expected to decline by havetobccarefulnottoallowl pupils within five years a sizeable amount of Board or Education tlon dollars to be eaten up by will look at a number of ideas community use of schools for using surplus space In when the board will receive eluding using schools tor day little more than good will and care and senior citizen use of municipal recreation centres putting students In facilities nil grades in one building and Alexander pointed out the and a decrease in the number expansion of adult education board will have to find some- of pupils In remedial classes Thursday trustees began thing to do with vacant apace Lavender said the enrol reviewing a report dealing In Its two vocational schools with the enrolment crisis She said with the expensive will face which will equipment in those buildings also form part of a brief they should be used and board will submit to a special thought the board might con- their skills at spotting pupils requiring special education Trustee Florence Means said big classes result in remedial students so the board should study whether enrolment declines result in smaller classes declines will mean the school system must be con Trustee Dr Helen Howard Lock said she wants vacant looking at the effects of declining enrolment Hamilton this April The report from Director oil Education Em Lavender pre dicts some schools will have to be closed while others will I be twinned so staff materials can be shared He has suggested in some provincial commission revamping the entrance school space to be used for requirements at General day care senior citizen Brock Shesaidtho centres adult education and board should consider by colleges and universities opening the two schools up to If possible She also thought more than lust vocational study should be given to pupils building modular schools Lavendersaldthereisntas which can be moved around much vacant space as has as population shifts been thought in the past since and using large schools for the shops are small and noted grades kindergarten to schools vacant classrooms be the province is lowering the pupils sealed off to save heating capacity figures for both Lavender noted a lot of schools creative thinking can go Superintendent of Special Into the vacant school space Services Ron Chapmon told question but again warned the board a committee will be acts of good will and citizen looking Into special education ship might end up costing a services at high schools and lot of education money possible change in education focus at Brock and Wolfe will be considered He said the school would remain any and schools being closed the board will have to build some new schools in high growth areas Milton Lavender suggests vacant space in well equipped ex New course irks mindmanipulation Amateur psychology la being practised on grade seven and eight pupils at Stewarttown and Centennial schools a Georgetown mother has charged Judith Goebelle Edith Street raised a number of questions about a new program for inter mediate students which was started in mid December at Thursday meeting of the Board of Education In an interview later she said haven t asked the board to be responsible for my child s character and soul and I don wish them to be Mrs Goebelle a critic of education declared She has branded the as mind and asked the board if the administration has in pensive high schools could be but vocational used for things like trainable students could be placed In mentally handicapped units vacant classrooms and the board might be able Trustee Bill said to use facilities like Ernest C it was fine for everyone to be School for the Deaf In saying that expensive well Milton which is owned by the equipped schools should be province instead of building used but reminded trustees new high schools over seven per cent of the Excess school space could budget goes to debt charges be rented out for community on buildings and some will use and some would even be have to be closed and sold Howard Lock said wasn advocating a away philosophy Problems caused by en raiment declines will be studied further by the board WHAT A SMOOTHY Ken cbecks the edge of a board he has just sanded to be sure it will meet his critical approval He is taking part in the night school woodworking class at the high school suitable for lease to doctors and dentists and other people needing office space board was told Before rooms are sealed off the board should actively try to have the space used by save money Lavender said some small enrolment courses and high school special education classes will have to be con so ted because of the enrolment decline but the community Trustee Judy assured trustees the board Alexander said She noted the will be able to continue board now responds only to developing high school core submitted a report Thursday community requests for use curriculum and special Board of Education of schools but by contacting testing and evaluation might find there Is more Alexander said enrolment interest in community use of declines will reduce the need schools for special education but It Lavender agreed this could won t reduce it proportion be done but warned the board Lavender noted He warned students needing remedial help could Increase since teachers are shar Various class sizes concern must look at costs and bene fits before turning space over to community groups Drastic differences in class week size are the number one con hours of both elementary and The report added teachers secondary school teachers in spend approximately another SB hours each vear talking to A joint board and teacher parents attending school committee looking into and attending human resources allocation meetings Totaling everything up the found the average outlining various concerns of teacher would work teachers examining working hours during the ten month conditions and time spent school working i lementary school The data filled study will be teachers also spend about reviewed by virtually every per cent of time they Don Long loses seat Georgetown no longer has a meetings representative on He admitted the regulation Board of Education since had been broken recently and Trustee Don Long lost his promised attendance would seat after he and the board be watched closely in the violated a little known section future to make sure the Act of the Education Act broken again However Long could be back Following the meeting on the board According to provincial legislation if a trustee misses three consecutive meetings without the board passing a resolution permitting the member absence the trustee is considered to have vacated his seat Long missed board meetings on January and February for a total of TOr four consecutive meetings missed The freshman trustee when talking revealed trustee was Long but ledged the Georgetown member the first person to miss three meetings in a row and the board has never passed a resolution permitting a member to be absent involved in public tion throughout the region One fact pointed up in the study is that elementary teachers on the average must work longer hours According to the report elementary teachers spend hours a week at school Includ minutes before school starts and minutes alter hours handling parent inter classes end On the average views supervising sports they don l spend more than a school tunc half an hour on lunch each tinns and at meetings each day but do over eight hours of year the press he work at home weekly The average high school offending A conservative estimate teacher works about 1 normal teacher work hours each year the report at school giving instruction High school teachers it the school as long just hours a week but spend more time doing school related work at home hours for a weekly total of G hours They spend about the same amount of lime eating lunch spend more returned to the board table February and then was absent again last Thursday He is a selfemployed Invest ment counsellor and has been away in Calgary on business The board will now have to make an appointment to fill the vacancy since the Educa Two Educators nave been honored with Queens Silver Jubilee medals Board of Education has had only two directors of education and both were honored with medals It was announced Thursday by board chairman Garry For one month Act provide for Em appointee if he wants the post He in Calgary and unavailable for comment The whole problem sprung up Thursday about half way through the regular board meeting at a time when the public is allowed to ask questions Lilian Kilpatrlck of Oak vllle asked how many meetings a trustee Is allowed to miss before action 1b taken by the board Chairman Garry Morton consulted the Education Act and discovered the regulation calling for board permission allowing a member absence from three consecutive fat BOWL for BOWL for Health Acton Bowling Lanes IMombar D A C I Superior Muffler GUARANTEE on tBpip labor if you own no wait mo Richs Seme Centre ltd ACTON PHONE HONDAS HONDAS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Baz Motors GEORGETOWN It Right 8775286 FREE INSTALLATION 17 CHANNEL CABLE TV 12 CHANNELS ON YOUR TV AND 5 MORE WITH A CONVERTER Households not In service at February 13th will save on installation end pay only the normal monthly service charges where service Is avail No long term contracts so you can try clear cable reception for as short a period as you like Applies on extra outlets tool CALL THIS SPECIAL ffi CABLE SYSTEMS ARMSTRONG AVENUE GEORGETOWN principals to make parents aware this program was being introduced Superintendent of Special Services Ron Chapman said principals were expected to announce the new course through cither a letter to the home or else at a program night Mrs Goebelle said while a portion of the program deals with traditional guidance topics such as careers and subject choices at high school the mojrolty of class time is spent discussing personal and private aspects of the child per sonality Chapman said parents are free to visit their school and examine both the leaching techniques used In the course and the materials used He said In response to one of Mrs questions that not services say parents are all the materials used come come to study teacher a from the United States Some reference manual for Inter- were developed and produced mediate guidance In Canada He said teachers have received some special train or the course and will receive more Mrs Goebelle said she was concerned parents of children In seven and eight students given explicit notification of the introduction of this new course She said she was relieved to hear the Superintendent of Special SUPER SUPPER Expanded French officially dead Expanded elementary French In Halton is officially dead Thursday Board of Education rescinded motions passed last September which set up a mandatory minutes a day French pro gram for pupils In grades four five six seven and eight A few weeks ago trustees decided to scrap the program before it even got off the ground Board members feared generous provincial grants for the trench program would be cut in a few years leaving to finance an expensive course time devoted to corecur rl courses like English and mathematics Grade six seven and eight pupils will continue to receive minutes of French dally RACEWAY HARNESS RACING Post Time Thursday Evening 8pm Sunday Afternoons 2pm TrlactorO Enactor Wagatlng Air Condtllonad Get movinto Metro Trust You can get more out of an RRSP with us therefore be stales the The study shows average class range from pupils lo and get progrcs bigger between grades kindergarten to eight Nearly GO per cent of elementary classes have between and students but there arc some that have more than SO pupils in them elementary school days run anywhere between hours and hours dally and while the province requires only five hours of instruction each day the average in is hours Choose ft TILDENi ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS Rgui GEORGETOWN Ri Retirement isinLs PI ins irt not tin samt irtt i drunk ink rest rate in Itjvt guessing as in don work A Mam trust low mi ailrmnistr Hum th SI i mil ol Hit term you And set for txampk ltlortiubu i US mutli mid jli ml Mtin I rust And hi sun in ask ihnui Mi Iku l him irkk all Oil ads In mi ssit trsonil its von know wturt ind It you o35yOa old mar ih 1vo Tax ngianO your you Income you can conn bum Altai ISO Metro Trust Metropolitan in id si Insur i rrior DO A ROOM OR A HOUSE SELECT FROM OVER 40000 SQ YDS IMPOSSIBLE TO PAY MORE UNDERLAY we carry EVERYTHING SQ YD YOU NEED TO DO THE JOB YOURSELF OUR HIGHEST PRICE IS YD REGULAR VALUES ELSEWHERE UP TO YD 320 STEELES AYE MILTON