HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1966-03-16, Page 6THE I.UCKNOW SENTINEL, 1 UCKNOW, ONTARIO
1'11(11 SCH001 BOARD, deprived of many options available;
COITINUED'FROM PAGE 1 at the Wingharn school. Consid
teachers who have taken roots in eying the financial part of the pro- j
the COnimunity %net made Lueknow P9salo Mar.. Scott felt that amal-
thoitt home,; the board would be liar gamation offered a sound financial
much deeper trouble." result with the Lucknow building, -
>Ye stressed the fact that nor^out- very adequate. for,the education of
side pressure had been placed, on senior elementary pupils,,'
The department of education
`the board to make .a.decision on . P•
the future of theschool, but that have ruled that a new elementary
.vocational course facilities at • school board would assume respon
Wingham, and 'the.likelihood that sibility for the debentures on the
enroltlent, in this course will in-. former Lucknow.. District High
crease sharply in the' future, has School. and the elementary school
caused the board to look�with con rate would' apply to the portion : of
cern at the:future of the school the debenture approved for high
The. need for elementary school school purposes., approximately
facilities in the district has. brought '95%. It is stipulated, that -the_ buil
the future of the school to a head , ding must be entirely used for•el-.
and'' the board -felt that this was ., ementary school classes. "Finan-.
the proper time to consider, the cially" , Mr..' Scott said; "the "el"
future, 207 pupils are presently; H ementary, schools would h' i e a .
attending classes at Lucknow ;with lot. to gain".
a provincial trend. indicating that lnspector Wdldie laird that mem
many of these pupils may wish to hers from.the Lucknot and Kinloss
'take vocational courses in the next, elementary school boards. had re- '
few years. •cently visited a senior ,elementary
The board feel that this will schobl in Stratford which hadbeen.
make the. school completely unec- built at a cost of 1/2 million
onomic to operate with a serious: dollars and which, rt built today;
teacher problem for such .a small would cost about $600,000.,. He
enrolment; ' ' said the Lucknow school would be
The -board approached the De of comparablelacilities but
partment of Education .some Weeks would be available at `a very' low •
ago and their recommendation cost. He,said "the senior public
was that Lucknow amalgamate school' is now in the -same position
with the:Wingham District. High • as the central school was when'.
School and use the, Lucknow build- 'Kinloss built. It is the type of
ing 'as a district elementary school education necessary and will be
for grades 7 and 8. Mr. Elunter • ' 'come` increasingly necessary in the
again stressed that nopressure was next few years". • . •
put on. the' Lucknow Board'by the •Principal L,E.Goyette cited
department. .A week ago, after a cases of many grade 9 and. 10 .dro
meeting with inspectors. the Board pouts in the past years, He said
Voted- unanimously in favour of malty of these were because the
meeting with Wingham to discuss' €curse•hot to the Ir
s were the and
g,
the possibility of amalgamation. needs of the pupil and they 'could
He said that Wingham would acc- be offered nothing to suit them
ept rhe'.L•,uckno fi area in an `atnal- despite average. and good intellig-
' amation titan and after returning .ante. He said That Lucknow-have.
the Wingham meeting. rue been offering -the v best .that •
Board voted unammousl b . seal ery. {
y` • y rias iibilelaut that it does not
eel taallot `to proceed further with differ' too much from the courses
the idea. .It was then decided to that were•,beittg offered back ';for
call,in the area :municipal and Marty years.., He said hisma;n in
eleinentarly repeesentatr a terest was that a chit(' receive the
Mr; 'Hunter said to the coaaneils best possible education to suit
in attendance. '1f you give :us a their *dental. needs but he felt
vote of c+anf denee we Will Barry ; they :were fame short of this in
on with the' amal *atmation an
l� •fd � rrrany cases.. Hi:cited a pupil- .
If. not, we will.t'ttenpt to!carry teacher ratio at Lucknow of 16.
. on. the Lucknow schoel as bei we pupils: for every 1 teacher with a
can."
best possible ,education they can.
He felt that the emphasis is too
Much on the success of a student
at university when there are other
fields where they can be, channeled
that are just as important and more
suitable for the student;
The following figures were pre -
what the municipalities in the
[.Unknow District HighSchool :area
would. be paying if they were part
of the Wingham area this year.
It also indicates what they are.
paying as part of the Lucknow ar-
ea. This does not consider Wing-
sented to the meeting and indicate ham's planned addition..
WINGHAMLUCKNOW DISTRICT •
Assessment ':$13,426,247.00 $5,389,862.00"
Unmatured deb- •
enture•Dec,31/66. 480000.0.0 187,000.0.0
(plus this year's`
' addition)
'principal&:Jnr- , .
erest due 1966. 854480.00
Debenture .Levy. (if Lueknow Dist.
Municipalities with. Wingham .
this year)
. $7,196.25.
432,17
•.
7,032707,5518
3•,568.56
3555.56 •
Ashfield
Culross
Greenock
Kinloss
• West Wawa -
nosh
.Village -
Lucknow
$22,492.37 ..
.10 present men-
icipalities in ,
W:H.S. Dist. ,$42;987.63_
'691.95.
969.82
8,121.80
4.564.62
6,469..58
P90689:21
1965 mill rate 12
Both. Councillor Harvey. Webster
and Reeve George .Joynt of Luck -
now questioned 'the using of these;
figures as they felt that they did
'not' clearly present the picture as
it stands.. ` They felt that if Luck,
now were: to. go to Wingham, acc
omodation would have to be pro='
• vided for the Lucknow pupils, and ,
that.the figures only indicated- •
'what would be paid. on the:build-
•ing as it now stands in Wing hant
To present .a true picture, they
'felt that costs of facilities to hou-
se the Lucknow` students would
have to`be shown. on •ttie.break °
down.
Donald MacKenzie, Reeve of,
Ashfield, asked if thesenior el-
ementary education would be . diff-
erent from. `what is already, being
'Offered in the inspectorate.. 'In
,specter Waldie„answered.:for his:
inspectorate. and .said that it
would be considerablyy different'
than.anything presently in. the
inspectorate. He said an opptxt-•
unity class is needed •badly and
would be ,provided .fee undue suc_h_ •
a drool,
Reeve Joy it stated that it was -
his .understanding that no ooe
would.come into :such an element
* school. and J hen asked the .
stteirceof his in formation, he said
Inspector Scott said that two : be felt "if children are to gel the
important poin.ts.w.ere to be cern- 1.edueaticxtt they need in the next •
sidered, the education. of, years.. fewyears manywill not be. able
pe�e..and the finances. involved. •,to�get it here." : :: - :-:
and he placed primary importance J, 1. Kinkead, public school in -
en the first tnentlened. He felt mer far Huron. said his prisnet`
that the Lucknow students are nor interest is to give the children the
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sHott ALSO ; .
Dunlop .Tire. a Atlas
Wheel BoIancing a :Alignment
."it's main street talk and I don't
know whether it's authentic”.
Donald MacKinnon of the Luck-
); now Public School made it clear
" that they were interested in such .
a senior school and that ."the
Reeve may ha' e• got his inferma-
erica from the Haan in. the street
t bet mt. the school board
Mr. Mc said he felt that i
Kinloss were also interested, •
Reeve Joynt 'clarified his remark.
in that he was referring to Ash-
,
, field and West Wawariosh School
area as net being interested, No
member filial this board either '
aged' or disagreed with this state-
, mmen . / •
Tt was pointed out that the,pro-
ced=re in acquiring the school for
element* :des was that 'the
W am Board woad take over •
e l*caiding and then :sell it back
to the area school boards for the .
debe=orre deb.t against it.. The'
cc- wase pressed'that if the
xsc.:+e d andr"ems. Wawanosh. ... •
BeintS did nee parrieipate in this,
t .O VOIW-rishipk would lose their
b the chart over the'
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ee .e iz:.t Mated that rriurtici-
to sr ativ es alw ay s are
;r:«o�woc by the departrttent of
e'er+c• i;cr.a school boards, • He
4.12�e de d it t.'ere was any"
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part -
ment of Economics and the Depart-.
ment of Education at Queen's Park.
The Luckngw Reeve said, he had:
two industries interested in .
locating in.Lucknow ifthis area •
is'named; a designated one;, but he
said it appears ridiculous to try.to
build up the town on one side ; and
do away' with the h�igh school on
the' other. . He?said•` :"if the Dep-
•artment'of•Education has made
its. mind uP on'?the matter, Luck -
now can jump in, the ocean` as far
as they are •concerned," .
He.went on, "I. can't see taking`
17% to'.Wingham, why not haul
a .few back if they are 'really int-
erested• in saving money The
Reeve : said,. . "I know what •:a dollar
is but we wonder if the Department
of 'Education know:,.. they_,spend
money like drunken sailors"
Councillor Harold Errington of
West W aw anosh questioned the bus
situation under a senior :elementary
school.. He felt that Goderich Rig
.School. students were being taken
'to .Goderich, andthen onto the;.
Vocational. School at Clinton and.,
because of the inconvenience of
this, and: the fact that they had : no
time,to: partiicipate:.in sporting and
social.events at the school, God
erich were now in the .process of
building awing :to their..school,
He said he would hate to.see°:a ..
'grade '1 'Pupil' have to.leav"eat•
1.40 A.M. to.get' to school. Con
.sidera'- discussion followed on
bussing.
•' .Russell Irvin of Ashfield' School` •
Area questioned inspector. Kinkead
as :to the satisfaction : of pupils now
• attending senior grades in estab-
lished central
stab-lished'centralschools such as
Howick. Mr; Kinkead said the
the Lucknow enrolment might
dimlltish to ibe.point where it
wouldle not practical to cont.
the school. Fre said 'he felt that:
hewas making the decision
With. the best interests of the said
enta in 11 110.0.
Bryce Elliott suggested the ,
ibility. of
making a schodi areae(
Kincardine, Ripley and Lucknow
all of which presently have to
'' buy their vocational education
from Wingham and, . Walkerton,
IInspector Soott,said the enrolmea
of the three schools, about 7001,
was still much .below the required
1000 for the establishment of a
vocational school... Bryce quest.
ioned the sports and ,social facil
ities thatawould be. available to
students attending.Wingham. H.
:said he often picks up students
• from the vocational course hitch.
hiking back to Lucknow after
ing the: bus. Mr. Elliott said
pupils were being picked up be
fore 7.30 a.m:. now and questi
ed what time they would .have to
be picked up to golo Winghain,
• Donald MacKenzie of Ashfield
..questioned if central schools
would be providing kindergarten,
Inspector W aldie said it would br
his hope tlfat any Lucknow-Kinn
board .would provide`.kindergartes
for .all pupils
results have steadily: increased
since the establishrnent.• Mr.
Kinkead said that improved educ
anon facilities foe grades 7 and 8
still have to be considered.
Leo Murray of Kinloss School
Board commended= the: Lucknow'
High School.Beard,foe facing the
problem as it exists. Leo said that
the Kinloss Board had been granted
approval for •an addition to Kinloss
• Central School bet they had been
marking time on the matterto
see what •would, be donein regards s•
tudied the hatter thoroughly but
to the High School. He said the
'lo
ibIttlyt
wastoomuchofarespaisboard don't wish to retrt`ain wait•tobethrownan theboarding any Ion er and tht h ill
Peter Connor! -questioned uestioned how
w
many grade.• 7 .. and 8 pupils would
makeup the Lucknow .and Kinlos
elementary system 130 *was the
answer with about 90 in •Ashfield'
West Wawanosh:.
It was suggested that if Luckna
and . Kinloss" wenn it alone", as'
many as' possible of -the Lucknow
Public: School would . be, moved int
the high school With 'the remainder
:continuing in;the old` school, at •
:least until a better solution' was '
found. If all'. the adjacent munic
alities, went into the senior elem•�
,entary school, Lucknow would;has
to `build a new school or a wing to
the present high school building,.
It is agreed.that the,90 year old
Lucknow . Public School has served
its day for' education..
Bryce:Elliott questioned, what
chance would the High, School
Board .have' of hiring teachers for
next term :if a teacher knew it '
,would only be for',a year.' Inspect.
or Scott'felt this was not as imil
'ant.as the overall -picture .Mr.
Kinkead said :for the latter part of
year, the teacher would be- a.me
ber of.the Wingham District Area,
if the change -over took place on.
Jantiary,1, '1967.. `
Evan Keith, chairman of the
Kinloss School,area, said they had
been much impressed with the .•
senior public school'which they%
visited' at. Stratford.- He said how
ever, that if Ashfield and West
Wawanosth want,no part of the
'senior' elementary ;school proposi'
tion, Kinloss would have tootake
a second look. at the picture. -
. • Reeve George Joynt questioned
if it was the civil' servants who
had dreamed up'this idea or if ,
this had come from .rice departmed
of •educatioin'. Inspector Scott said,
"definitely nu, this idea has come
from ,the boards"
Donald `MacKenzie said that it
had been his policy never to inter,
fere with the school boards and
the they were in a position to
know what was lest, and size up .
the matter.
Charles' Webster they had
g a they w
tbonhave to tnakea'decision. George'Joynt's closing remarks
Charles Websterof the High
were that he did not feel thetas
, tg ,
School Board said he hottestly'felt was ttteresteti'in purcl asing tubll
'that. rop had not onfor providing High School to be used 'as a p
the proper• education for students school.for Lucknow .
The meeting ao;c�:r'ed until
tuainly due to• the lack of options
March 28 when the r„uri',V ip 1` a1�r
les.
available. He said he has stttdted
the trend in i ocational education ,,will report back to the :nigh Schad
across 'rhe prop ince and feels `that: