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Gardening Seniors School News the HERALD- SECTION B Wednesday November 1991 E HILLS Community Focus Entertainment Religion grads reap rewards SPECIAL RECOGNITION Michael Stieril Cave Bob DeZeeuw 500 Mark Micklethwaite 8000 Diana Morrow Lisa 2000 2000 1600 Heather Santsche Nick 4000 Entrance Scholarship University Bachelor Physical Education A Wilson Searle Scholarship Admission Scholarship University ol Western Ontario York University Renewable Entrance Scholarship Queens Honour Matriculation Canada Scholarship Presidential Scholarship from Redeemer Colleqe Tuition Atlas Alloys Arts Scholarship Award University ol Waterloo Carleton University Journalism AMY PEARCE AWARD presented by the Rotary of Georgetown for proficiency In six O AC level courses Julie Hancock HALTON BOARD OF EDUCATION AWARD to a graduate for high proficiency In six level courses Krlsten Voegell UNIVERSITY WOMEN CLUB OF GEORGETOWN AWARDS to two graduates who have shown leadership in school and community activities and who are now pursuing studies at university Mark Diana Morrow HALTON WOMEN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP to a female graduate pursuing studies in mathematics science or technology The award is dedicated to the memory of the young women tragically killed In Montreal on Dec 6 Diana Morrow CENTENNIAL PHYSICS SCHOLARSHIP for outstanding achievement In the Physics OAC to a graduate continuing studies engineering or physical sciences at university Diana Mororw STANDARD PRODUCTS AWARDS for excellent achievement in I Communications proficiency in English and one other language at the OAC level Diana Morrow Social Science at the O AC level Tammy Davidson HI Art exhibiting ability in a variety of art media Sonja Wassermann CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC AWARD for proficiency In two courses to a graduato considering a career En the health care field Cotton MAURICE CHARLES HILLOCK MEMORIAL AWARD for highest proficiency in French after four years of study Kelly Cotton AM BAXTER PLAQUE to the outstanding student in the AC level sciences Ken Sun FACULTY OF D SCHOLARSHIP GOVERNOR GENERAL S MEDAL to the graduate who has achieved the highest proficiency in six O A level courses Diana Morrow HYMAN SILVER AWARDS given in memory of Hyman Silver to two graduates for proficiency in six O A C level courses Kon Sun Barry Ewlng J L LAMBEPT PROFICIENCY AWARD given by the staff and former students in honour of Mr Lambert service to G S as pal from to ft is awarded to a graduate for high proficiency and school citizenship Kelly Cotton MARGARET HIGHAM AWARD presented by the Kinelte Club of Georgetown for excellent school and high proficiency In six O A C level courses Michael JOHN ELLIOTT AWARDS to graduates who have shown exceptional involvement and the performing arts music dance drama n school and in Iho community achieving good slanding Mark Holly Verhaegen SWEET ADEUNES MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP to a graduating student in Halton for outstanding achievement in the ol vocal music Holly ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARD to a student wno has demonstrated superior skills in the English OAC Michelle Alternative education survey distributed in Halton Hills By I ISA BCKJNSTOPPFl POT The Herald In its quest to assess community reaction to alternative education Georgetown District Christian School is distributing a sur vey to over Hills residents The purpose of survey is to find out if the public feels threatened by alternative schools or if they believe their time has come explained Art Loveless chairman of the Board of Directors He and Sybersma cipal of GDCS believe in alter native schools such as and have three goals to increase awareness of alternative education assess community opinion of alter n tive education and to support the concept of partial government fun ding for alternative schools two discussed the rationale behind the creation of thev survey and their ideas about education with the Herald Thursday night In the interest of broadening the option of alternative schools to low income families we propose the concept of partial government fun ding said Mr Loveless is like other alternative schools in that parents cover the cost of educating their children an ex not often affordable for low er income families Currently alternative schools like receive absolutely no educational funding from the government unlike Roman Catholic Separate schools which are completely funded We believe partial funding of our schools would reduce the overall cost to the Ministry of Education in the long term he said The cost of teaching students in is 60 per cent of what it costs to teach a student in the public school system and as more and more parents send their children to alternative schools government education costs would decrease What he am manv other alter native education supporters don want is full funding full funding means full control siid Mrs Svbersma who explained the whole concept of alternative schools is based on a parental desire for qualitv education which is based upon a stated philosophy This per mits specific values to be taught Another reison GDCS t want full funding is because the board believes in responsible gov er nment funding would be a drain on government coffers he stated Mr Loveless and Mrs Svbersma t alone in supporting alter native education and partial nment funding There is a a provincial organization called The Coalition for Religious reedom in Education which was formed in 1989 With the goal of promoting justice equality and fairness in the treatment of diverse ideological and religious views and com munities represented in the Ontario education scene as stated in a pamphlet distributed by the coalition There is also a political party the Family Coalition Party which sup ports partial government funding to independent schools believing it will reduce education costs and enhance the quality of education in Even still Mr Loveless admits it easy to convince some GDCS board members to support the idea of a community survey It took quite a bit of selling ART LOVELESS within our own board because the ev isn t something that directly promotes our school said Mr eless realize this is a novel thing to do If the results of the survev are positive and used as part or a political campaign to pressure the government for partial funding it ill indeed benefit other alternative schools which have the same agen da Mr Loveless has stated the results of the are one more piece of information to substantiate the worthiness of our cause Mrs Svbersma said the was the brainchild of Mr Loveless He has a large vision He sees education as a justice issue Despite the issues both ad their ultimate goal is to promote parental involvement in alternative education When a group of people e the same ideas and values it makes sense to form an alternative school rather than strip all value out of public schools said Mr Loveless We believe the removal of moral and spiritual elements from education isn t healthv for Idren TREENA SYBERSMA They re also concerned with the governments current trend of doing just that and what thev per ceive as the threat of parents losing their rights when it comes to their childrens education If parental rights are removed vou re left with the states rights which can be rather frightening he said The survev s are alreadv in the mail and contain questions which are aimed to assess the attitude of the public toward education in Residents are asked if thev believe in the creation of alternative schools with a what of sch olmg chtxjse and if alter native schools be funded among other questions The answers will be compiled in and a will be made available to anvone who requests it for a 2 fee Georgetown District Christian School is an interdenominational Christian school which was founded in to provide elementary education based on a Christian of life The school is governed a board of directors which iselectedbv parents and sup porters of the school Principal address Principal Bryn addresses the class of at Friday Wi he commented jut how the times are and the students must face changes with confidence and determination if-