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pu An estimated 49,000 Simcoe County students will trudge back to the classroom in less than two weeks, with both the public and _ separate boards of education projecting almost the Same enrolment they had in 1974-75. In many parts of Ontario, the number of students is dropping, leaving teachers and their boards with tough budgetary problems to face. But this area, despite a birth rate that has been falling since the mid-sixties, is holding its own with a slow but steady migration of people from metropolitan areas to the south Sid Owens, tendent of planning with the Simcoe County Board of Education, -- said Monday that he is predicting an increase of 102 students at the superin- elementary level, to 27,924, but admits "we might not even get that." At the secondary level, he estimates a jump over last year of 576 students to 15,295, but in area three, taking in North Simcoe, he expects only 29 more students to enrol. All the growth, he said, is taking place in the south half of the county -- the part closest to Toronto, within com- muting distance. At the elementary level, he expects to see a drop in enrolment in area 3, from 4,724 to 4,630. Frank Macdonald, director of the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board, said in an interview that "we expect the enrolment to be just about static." The board will be operating three new portable classrooms in Barrie this year, since a Enrolments stable at both blic and separate boards elsewhere. Macdonald noted that kindergarten registra- new school planned for the city is not expected to be completed until "some time in 1976." tions jumped 15 per cent As with the public last year and he foresees board, the separate an increase in September board's enrolment is growing in the south end of the county, but holding its own or shrinking based on registrations last spring, but again, he said "we can never be sure,"' County teachers a have no contract There is not talk of a walkout, but one problem hanging over the heads of members of the Sincoe County Board of Education is that teachers will be returning to the classroom in September without a contract. The local branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, and their elementary school counterparts, have been unable to agreement with the board on a pay scale for 1975-76. reach Sizes 1-12 $13.95 Back To School! with A Winning Combination New ADIDAS adidas FLASH and HAWK TRAINING SHOES. 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