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LY PARRA © FAR AMEN JL RA EO ROE SSPE Aa a a at LASKY Sole ry tpg aiytot Gone from the schools by June 30, 1984 td Abia dade Gs spo Sst 4 fagye 2 yor TR LR DUNIS, oR SUBS EVE OO CPR FER SK rr URSRARAR AEN ATFH HREAFIIPAN AN SARE PRLSIIPL IOC Durham bids goodbye to the strap The strap will official- ly disappear from school classrooms in Durham Region at the end of June, 1984. . By a vote of 12 to five (with two absent) trustees = with the Durham Board 'of Education approved abolition of the strap at a Board meeting held in Oshawa April 11. The amendment rules out all forms of physical punishment in Durham elementary and secon- dary schools at the end of the 1984 school year. Scugog trustee "Rev. Stuart McEntyre, who has long favoured the abolition of strapping as a method. of discipline and is chairman of a board sub-committee dealing with these issues, told the Star. following the meeting that the strap simply is "no_ longer a part of modern teaching methods." The old adage of "sparing the rod and spoiling the child just doesn't wash anymore. These are not the norms of society," he said. Rev. McEntyre said the parents who have children in the public school system have told the Board through surveys that they do not "want the strap (or other4 forms of physical punish- ment) to be part of the classroom. . He said other school boards in Ontario have Former MPPon police board Bill Newman, former agricultural minister of Ontario, was appointed a member of the Dur- ham Regional Police commission by the pro- vincial government. The Ashburn resident, whose appointment is effective May 1, will re- place Tom Jermyn, an Oshawa lawyer, who steps down from the commission at the end of this month. Newman, 55, has de- voted his time to operat-' ing his' 100-acre farm, Province to pay for n school site 8 The Provincial Education Ministry will" announce this week that money for the purchase of a site for a new Cath- olic elementary school Police search ended Durham Region Police spent several hours last Friday dragg- ing Lake Scugog east of Caesarea after reports that a 21-year old Tor- onto man was missing. Police began dragg- ing the lake after the young man's parents found what police des- cribed as "a farewell letter". A canoe belong- ing to the young man was also found on the shore of Lake Scugog. However, the 'dtagg- ing operation was called * off a few hours later when the man contacted his father. The young man's family has a cottage in the View Lake area, east of Caesarea., "available in 1984. north of Whitby, since retiring from polities in early 1981. He resigned as min- ister of agriculture and food the year hefore, following his announce- ment that he would seek re-election in the riding of Durham York." Being a member of a police commission. shouldn't hold any sur- prises for Newman. Earlier in his political career he had been a member of the Picker- ing police commission, ew in Port Perry will be Up to $220,000 will be available for the pur- chase of the site near the Immaculate Con- ception Church and school on Highway 7A in Port Perry. The Immaculate Con- ception School, which has been open for a couple of years; now uses portables and the Church auditorium as classrooms for students from Junior Kinder- garten through to grade eight. Although the ann- ouncement this week refers to funds only for . the land and not con- struction of the new school, Durham-York MPP Ross Stevenson says 'this is a positive step" that money will be available in future for construction of the school. The estimated cost of building a new school is .in the $2 million range: Earlier this year, Mr. Stevenson met with a group of parents and church members who are working towards construction of a new school in Port Perry. 3 effectively out-lawed the strap and the Minister of Education has said the strap should be taken out _ of the schools. He said the strap is vir- tually a non-issue in Durham Region schools anyway because it is seldom used at the elementary level and vir- tually never used at the Vol. 117 No. 20 secondary level these days. He said the trustees opted for the June 30, 1984 date to give teachers and staff a chance to become familiar with new methods of dealing with students who are discipline problems. Although the strap will no longer be used as a form of punishment, Rev. McEntyre em- phasized that the Board policy will not rule out the use of physical force by teachers to protect themselves or other students in certain situations. . He said that at one time he was in favour of the strap as a kind *'of symbolic symbol' in the classroom, but now feels that would have no value. As former teacher and principal, Rev. McEn- tyre said on aceasion he did resort to the strap and it put both him and the student in *'a difficult position." I would not want to put Tuesday, April 19, 1983 that responsibility on any teacher today, he stated. Schools within Durham Region, he ex- plained, are now in the process of establishing individual Codes of Behaviour which will stress discipline in a positive fashion. These Codes should be in place within the next year or 80, he said. 36 Pages Pee Wee B's bring home a championship The Port Perry Pee Wee B's are the all-Ontario champions as they defeated a team from Forest 5-1 on Saturday night to take the best of seven final four games to two. Port Perry was in complete control of the game with a solid offensive and defensive performance, much - fo the delight of a large partisan crowd at the Scugog Arena. This is the third year in a row that the Pee Wee B team sponsored by Stone Real Estate has captured the all-Ontario title. (See story on the sports pages). Front from left to right: Mark Elliot, Greg Stapleton, Jamie Menzies, Brent McMillan, Mike Toye, Jim Vernon and lan Smith. Second row from left: Jeff Oke, Robbie Jamieson, Keith Roberge, Kevin Gibson, Derek Fit- zgerald, Tim Allsopp, Davis Watts and Paul Wylie. At back from left are sponsor George Stone, manager Carl Fitzgerald, coach Dave Obee and trainer Peter Christie. Among local delegates heading to Ottawa convention Joe Clark not very popular Joe Clark won't get much support from the Durham-Northumber- land delegates elected Saturday to attend the Conservative Leader- ship convention this June in Ottawa. While none of the six voting delegates from this riding said they are firmly committed to a leadership candidate at this time, several at the meeting Saturday stated quite flatly that they will not be support- ing Mr. Clark, the former leader of the Party who stepped down after getting just 66 per- cent support at a nation- al meeting in Winnipeg last January. The local meeting held at Clarke High School 'near Orono ran like clock-work with about Tories from this riding casting eo Eu] vy J "ballots for the leader- ship convention dele- gates. Dr. Peter Zakarow, a Bowmanville dentist and President of the Durham-Northumber- land P.C. Association was 'automatically selected as delegate to the convention. The other voting dele- gates will be Robert Fair of Port Hope, a long-time Tory party worker in this riding who has served as Allan Lawrence's campaign manager in the last two federal elections; John Reid, who has worked for 15 years with the riding association and is presently chairman of the Clarke-Newcastle wing of the Association. Ruth Gordon of Cob- ourg, who also has been an active worker for the past 15 years in this riding was elected as the woman's delegate. She defeated Marie Hubbard of Bowman- ville, who was nominat- ed as a delegate by Dr. Matt Dymond of Port Perry. The two Youth Dele- gates from this riding, who were elected separately by about 20 young Tories, are Guy Henning, a 24 year old (Turn to page 7) VE