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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Jury 19 LITS Start their Lavender says practical training No great exodus from schools HOT DOGS and lots of them were on the menu for the Sunday school as students and teachers from the Acton Evangel Pentecostal Tabernacle Church got together for a picnic at Rockwood Conservation Park Serving up the hot dogs is Karen Stewart from Acton Participants in the Re creation Department leader in training program have completed two weeks theoretical training and have now started work on and community sites On July eight Acton students began the two week theoretical training in pre paration for on site training Included in the training session were visits from many community resource people for instruction in first aid story telling camp crafts outdoor archery canoeing games songs and drama Also mixed in with their busy schedule was an overnight camp at Terra Cotta where they studied Outdoor education Program planning barb ecues and special events planned by the students were also crammed into the two veek period The students began work yesterday and must log loo hours of practical working time during the next six weeks Acton students will rotate throughout the summer between the Recreation day camp play ground adventure and pools programs Acton students taking part In the program are Frank Jock Tony Saxon Angela Kathy Tost Sandra Mason and Linda Linda is a graduate from last year program and is an advanced leader in training Teacher board talks longest ever Contract negotiations between Board and Us over teachers have now tasted longer than at any other time in the regional boards 10 year history Board negotiator Trustee Bill Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation district nine negotiator Rupert and fait on Elementary Teachers spokesman Hill Watt met with the press Thursday evening They announced talks will continue through summer Both the teachers representatives and said the tone of negotiations hive been amicable and everyone is satisfied with the progress made so far They said until a settlement is reached issues are con tenuous Ihey wouldn what are problems sues are on the table now Some have been tentatively settled The three negotiators admitted they ire far apart on some issues but they arc moving towards an negotiated agreement is still possible without sane or binding arbitration being needed Priest ner de clared Use of auxilnry personnel or pan professionals in schools and classrooms is an issue in negotiations they confirmed Both sides acknowledge the great use which can be of p in professionals but the leichers have maintained iliey t be substitutes or teachers but add on staff The board lonf said thai where it is feisible and desirable several para pro fessionals can be hired in plate of iteaeher it Ihe sunt cost Par professionals teichinf I he hired in to school s full teaching com plemcnt The leaching assistant issue is Just one of several staffing issues With declining enrolment on horizon re dun and surplus teachers ire negotiating Hems Papin said the teachers arc keeping a close on of livinf labor agree ments other board teacher settlements In wage talks with the board It was noted this has been a slow year for contract nations with only five Ontario boards Peel Metro Toronto Witerloo and Sudbury hiving settled so far Neither side would reveal demands observed teachers ire in the top quarter for salaries for teachers in their ire about avenge for large in He the Hilton lio in Ins never been v Ihout a contract with its teachers for the following school year during the proceeding summer Settlements have always been reached for the next school year by the end of the current school year Talks hove never taken place during the summer The current teacher boird post ends said talks arc moving slower this year than in the past and predicted this will be a trend for some time since contract talks become more difficult and complex year IK observed this is only third collective since the province brought in Bill 100 legislation governing board teacher negotiations He feels the Ontario laws make talks more complex Priestner and two teacher negotiators said they thought talks were getting better each year though Neither side expect a settlement before school resumes in September not just because teachers t around to ratify a new pact Talks began as always in March and teachers brought in their positions on April 24 and May 1 with the board offering Its counter proposal May With teaching salaries taking per cent oi the boards annual budget and the teachers no longer being covered by A I controls talks in that area ire taking a lot of time Before Bill 100 only wages and fringe benefits were negotiated Now all con ditions of employment are negotiable Teacher currently organize and run one of the nine pro fessional development days each year in and want to run two next year The number of teachers employed by the board is anoiher issue A large exodus from Halton public schools to other schools which some claim is taking place Just t hap pening according to stotis tics Thursday Halton Board of Education reviewed figures presented by Director of Education I- m Lavender which he says show there is no great exodus His figures showed the pattern of movement between Hnlton public and separate schools between 1973 and While the number of students coming to public schools from separate schools dropped from 253 in 1973 to 130 in 1976 number going from public schools to separate schools jumped from 183 In 1973 to three years later He said the increase in recent years in the number of public school students going to separate schools in is due to an Increase in separate school facilities including the development of a separate high school in Burlington and a separate elementary school in Acton Lavender said he knows there are a number of Roman Catholic pupils still going to public schools but they can t by law be identified by the board He said he thought there is no great exodus one way or the other but instead an annual movement of pupils between the two systems His report was in response to a letter from Rev Ken Campbell of Renaissance who claims there arc tens of thousands of parents throughout the province who have been forced to pull their children out of the free public school system and place them in other school systems such as Catholic Separate schools said parents are taking their children out of the public school system because they reject the school secularist religious Acton Trustee Bert has said several times in the past that public school system is losing many pupils to the separate school system He his suggested separate schools arc students in the public system He urged the board work with the School Board to set up i Heritage high school Former chairman Judy Alexander wondered how the moral levels Camp- hell wants in Heritage schools could be ensured as well as accountability of the trustees and staff for such a school system Mrs Alexander said she She said Campbell letter would be to see what Is so full of generalities It is lies behind Campbells bird to answer philosophical arguments DECISION Ottawa J icngAprM 1978 In Ottawa Tolocommun cations Com io follow dec on LAKEVIEW CENTRE Carpet and Fhomg Speoaists Installers On Staff Wo F RICHMOND CORONET VENTURE OZITE CALLAWAY ARMSTRONG and AF FMEESTtMATES Lakeview Centre Main Stmt ctrm ISO CRTC Acton Aran in Cabla Syatama Urn Had i Ontario and Surrounding info fens f those by or Georgetown Acton Onto ng as follows Maximum Pro tad Maximum f APPROVFD ho Co on con do an too and an ho monthly too from to a mat mum to jus fed on nancial and n consdoration as by I robu Id i common of Acton and lion and develop rig It T Com una ado develop by I to Is a and on van for mprovod I to contnue is towards in prog I 1 on C da la Ion and TolBcommunlcollona el 14 lecom mimic an canadlonnoi Board janitors reach agreement school caretakers will receue 14 cent an hour pay boost Thursday Board of Education ratified new contracts its full and part time caretakers The per cent pay in crease for the 217 janitors will cost the board In iddition the new con tract with full time members of Canadian Union of Public Employees I 1011 provides for four weeks vaca Hon years employ and five weeks after years Leave without pay lion courses was also ap proved The part time janitors old agreement expired in and the new pact is subject to I B controls Board negotiator Trustee Bill warned the per cent raise in the new contract is likely per cent A I guidelines The workers receive a cent an hour pay boost in the contract as well as six per cent lion pay eight years employment Clauses for in the family and education leave were also revamped in the new con tract Mather resigns Hilton Board of Education is looking for a new senior Thursday trustees the resignation of the Superintendent of Program Bruce Mather who joined the board in will leave October for the post of Director of in Hastings County In his letter of resignation Mather noted he came to for a learning and It was He praised trustees administration and staff of the Board of and wished every one continued success with an excellent school system Trustee Bert Hint on has suggested Mather not be replaced Missed Your Free Press Please Let Us Know Our carriers do their best to give fast courteous service but mistakes do happen so It you do not receive your paper or have any complaints regarding delivery please call our office 8532010 I I THIS Special BUD Webster of Eden Mills tried the bike rodeo course at Back to Acton Days on a cycle BIKE RODEO entrant who didn know enough to quit was Bradley Hayter three of Division St He had great fun at Back to Acton Days Business Sale NEW STORE HOURS Sat HINTONS Frank Danna dies suddenly Prank Anthony area superintendent of finance for Board of Education since its inception In J died suddenly A chartered Mr was to Ministry of Education from 1971 to where 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