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Kids Haven't Changed, Retiring Principal Says Gladys Greenwood at her office in the Lockharts Public School. By Peter Parrott Teaching methods and school facilities may have changed over the past 40 years but a local principal who is completing her 26th year of teaching said last week that students are not much dif- ferent today. "Children are much the same. They like a lot of love and individual attention", said Gladys Greenwood in an interview with The Statesman. Mrs. Greenwood, who has been principal of the Lockhart's School for the last 18 years, is taking an early retirement from a career which began in the mid 1930's during the depression. She explains that her retire- ment is in order to have more time to herself and she feels that by retiring there will be another opportunity for a younger teacher entering the job market. While boards of education were actually looking for teachers in the years following World War Two, there was a lack of jobs for graduate teachers in the 1930's when Mrs. Greenwood taught her first class. Salaries Low Salaries were slim at that time. Howver, Mrs. Green- wood said the pay for teachers was probably no lower than what others were getting during the 1930's. Teachers going through normal school were advised not to accept a job paying less than $700 per year, Mrs. Greenwood recalls. But, she added that many teachers taught for less because of the scarcity of work and because any sort of experience in the teaching profession was valuable. After graduating from normal school, it was a full year before Mrs. Greenwood landed a job as a teacher at the Sixth Line School in Clarke Township. The one room building which now serves as a house was also known as SS Number 21 Clarke. Basics Conditions at the school were perhaps typical of the conditions inside thousands of similar schools scattered across Ontario at the time. Equipment included just the basics. There was an atlas, maps, a dictionary and black- boards. Textbooks, paper and pencils were bought by the students. The standard wood-burning stove was in the building and there were the usual eight grades under one roof. In fact, the first year that Mrs. Greenwood taught at the sixth line, a grade nine student was an added responsibility. After seven years of teaching at the Clarke Town- ship school, Mrs. Greenwood quit her job when she was married. (At that time, married women didn't teach). She was out of the teaching profession 17 years while her family was growing up and returned to her career in 1960 when she became principal of the new, two-room school at Lockhart's. Since that time, Lockhart's Public School has grown to four rooms. It has bright colors indoors, the building is modern and spacious with a gymnasium, staff room and resource centre. There are now 126 children attending the school and the pupils are in grades one to six. Many of the characteristics of the one-room school are still visible at Lockhart's. Perhaps that is because the school's principal started her career in a one-room school. Prefers Small Schools "I still like the small schools," Mrs. Greenwood says. "You get to know the children better when you have them longer." She added that Lockhart's bas tried to provide all the advantages of a larger school while keeping the benefits of a smaller building. The community's involve- ment in the school seems to be one of the traits of Lockharts School. Seventeen parent helpers work in classrooms voluntarily on a regular schedule, Mrs. Greenwood says and describes the parents' help as "terrific." Christmas Concert Other examples of the school's ties to the community is the annual Christmas concert which is a tradition a t Lockhart's. Mrs. Greenwood said the annual event was once a very important part of the routine of a one room school. She said it may be that Christmas concerts have been staged at Lockhart's for the last 100 years. She said the concert is o learning experience since il teaches such things as music, drama, public speaking anc co-operation betweer members of à group. In the past, students and parents have also helped oui, by landscaping the school grounds. "Every tree that's been planted I think I know," Mrs. Greenwood says. The students plant a garden every year at the school. Describing the idea characteristics of a goot teacher, Mrs. Greenwood sait that a teacher must be open tû change. "If there's one thing a teacher must be, it is flexible." Changes She indicated she often makes changes in her teaching approach. "I don't believe in doing the same thing the same way every year." With the wood stoves and the one-room building in the background, recent changes in teaching have included the "new math" and now metric math. There have been courses in human growth and development added to the course of study. There are also environmental studies which replace the old subjects that were called science or social studies. Films and film strips help children learn and so do trips outside the school or tr4vels with parents. Mrs. Greenwood adds, however, that it is difficult now to find places to take children that they have not already visited. She said she believes there are more opportunities for many children today. A teacher must be inter- ested in what he or she is doing, Mrs. Greenwood said, and added "you've got to really like children." Much has been said of Ontario's northland and its various problems, though little as been said since the release of the Hartt report. In the report of the Royal Commission on the Northern Environ- ment, Mr. Justice Hartt describes the mercury problem, created by northern pulp and paper mills, as - intolerable. He was only subjected to it for a very brief period, yet it was long enough to form such an opinion. Though, it must be said, mercury is not the single issue causing this comment, it is a major cause, the many problems endemic to Indian communities along with continuing development also con- tribute to much of the despair. CATCH TED WATSON'S STRAWBERRY EXPRESS PICK YOUR OWN It often seems to me that northern Ontario is like a simmering kettle, all it takes is a little more heat to boil it. The barious treaties of the north are federal- ly administered, which means Ottawa is res- ponsible for many things usually within provincial jurisdiction. With this'overlap goes a lot of bureaucratic wrangling, along with a continuing inability of Federal - Provincial Governments to work together with some co- hesion. 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The dedication, vision average of one hundred Canadian Legion on the and foresight which your and seventy million dol- occasion'o the celebration of members have expressed lars of investment per "Legion Week Ontario", June through your varied programs year, and the industry 25 to July 1.for Our youth and our senior has the potential to The distinguished record of citizens are a measure of your continue this trend. The vales nd you on $170 million would meet more, profit levels are commitment to the better- thement of the world in which we the oderizaton d- bginnng t impove live. Your efforts to ensureý. mand along with a after a slump of several that our veterans, who haveï portion of the pollution years, and the general served their country's needs abatement program outlook is for continued with honour and valourin which has moderniza- buoyancy. If both indus- times of peril, have full tion effects. The discus- try and government are knowledge of their available sion paper then suggests able to institute success- r nd beneis ae easing the burden of fui courses of action to deepest appreciation. sulfhite pollution con- deal with the problems May 1, on behaîf of the tro, and questions the for which each is Most Government and the people of capacity of the industryOntaro, express to all of you to finance the pollution finitelf wtaheal my sincere gratitude for your to fnane te plluionfin'iteli wih aheathY significant and extensive- abatement program on and viable pulp and contributions to society. May I its own. paper industry in the also express my very best It makes me wonder 1980s. 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