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Co-op practice makes perfect PAUL eee While Thursday is officially 'Career Day"' at MSS, many senior students will be involved in the school's speeial program of career exploration all year long. Over the last four years Jim Agnew, a Technical Teacher at MSS with over two decades experience, has served the area as the Simcoe County Board of Education's Co- op Education Co-ordinator. With Agnew's help, interested students spend part of their school year working for local businesses and services while maintaining their academic studies. The schedule of employment, for which there is no pay, is different for each student throughout the year, some take three one week work sessions, while others join an entire class for a couple of hours of co-op work experience two or three times a week. Each student is evaluated by the employer and by an MSS teacher who visits the work place during the co-op session. Each placement must be related to a subject in the curriculum and the evaluations become part of the student's school record. Every 120 hours at work earns one academic credit. Agnew has arranged work experience for students as auto mechanics, hairdressers, kindergarten teacher's aids, X-Ray technicians, and even one as an assistant to MPP Alan McLean in his Orillia and Queen's Park offices. popularity with both students and employers as the enrollment has swollen from 35 in 1981 to the current figure of 136 work force placements. Agnew projects a further 30 student; participants before the end of the year. _ He explains that Co-op education is in- tended to give students the chance to sample a possible career before they commit themselves to further education or training. If grade 12 student Khalida Ali, 17, decides to pursue her goal of becoming a pharmacist she must first complete grade 13, be accepted at University for a further five year program, and then complete a year of internship. Ali is currently serving her second of three co-op work weeks at Jory's IDA Pharmacy on skills with her strong school record in science into a retail pharmacy career. She admits to, '"'having her eyes opened,'"' more than once while working under close supervision as part of the dispensing team, but she is already declaring with conviction, '"Now I know for sure. This is what I want to do."' Pharmacist Alex Kowalski has supervised three Co-op students from MSS over the last three years. Kowalski, who was also in- terested in teaching and chiropractic, says he ' wishes co-op education was available when he was in high school because he could have, "explored the options."' "Khalida is going to discover if she could realistically enjoy this type of work in a retail setting." And, he predicts, 'It looks to me and each job. Some work half days its King Street and hopes to combine business like she's going into Pharmacy." MSS Co-op Education has proven 2 \ _ te e oe. oe ee a SANTA AND FRIENDS: That's who we saw at Saturday's giant Santa Claus parade in Elmvale I wouldn't sell a diamond I wouldn't give my wife. I love diamonds. Selling | | them is my business. Giving : them to my wife is my plea- sure. To appreciate the superb quality of a diamond, it's important to understand the 4C's: Cut, Color, Clarity and Carat-Weight. Cut, being the precise formula for cutting a diamond to allow the maximum amount of light in. Color, meaning the different gradations from exceptional white to yellowish. Quality is also determined by Clarity, which is the degree to which.a diamond is free of interior and exterior inclusions. And finally, there is Carat-weight, most simply the size of the diamond. You know youre discriminating when it comes to quality. So am I. And diamonds of the highest quality are something to marvel at. And something else to own. AG JV Cur-v130 VIDEOCASSETTE -RECORDER Not exactly as illustrated eDouble flap front cassette S oading eWWireless infrared remote control e4head, 4 motors eShuttle search, still frame and frame advance 2634°° 7 Cash or cheque pay} dnd ET OS SE MRE SI SS JVC R-K200 10-Watt Digital Receiver Reg. $330. Four characteristics that determine the 304% JVC L-A110 JVC SK-202 quality of a diamond. Consult me. AtteRetirn : 3-Way, 80 Watt i (S : Speaker Belt-drive ia --~ eee Turntable with cartridge ES eS .. ~S 4 Reg. $150. ae 29 Coco Reg. $300. pr '© KD-V100 $47995 asses $Q95 *7GH° Reg. $200. eComplete line of JVC portables & Car Radios NOW ON SALE! °All JVC Stock ON SALE. : 280 King St., Midland AUDI Osnorr: 7 24 526-7821 || Page 10, Wednesday, December 12, 1984 Quality, It's as important in diamonds as in anything else you own.