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(Editor's note: The Writer
einphesizes, that.he writes as
Private -citizen and not as
member' Of the. Huron County
board of education, He stresses
that the opinions contained in
01s, article are his own, and not
necessarily those Of other trus.
tees on the board.)
BY REM, P.L. 1v1013gAN SMITH
411962 there were just Under
1,300 children barn in Mural;
County. This is aPPrOXiMately
the number Who Should enter
grade 1' clasSes in September,
This is also the number 14 each
of our first four grades, slightly
greater than the pearly 1,200
pupils in the upper four grades
of the elementary schools,
Let us 1ook at the births since
then, They have dropped by
about 100 a year, so that in
1966 only 825 babies were added
to the county population. The
figures are not yet assembled
for 1967. Unless there is im.
migration into the county, we
will have need of 5001ess desks
in our schools in four years,
the size of our present largest
public school building.
our county birth rate is 15.2
compared with 18,9 in Ontario.
This indicates an aging popu.
lotion, and reflects the loss of
our young people to the cities.
Will this trend be reversed?
Now let us look at our ex.
isting plants. Most of our
schools are relatively new, The
only one.room schools left are
in McKillop Township. All our
high schools have been frantic-
ally putting up costly additions
in the past years. Are weiikely
to be paying debentures for the
next 15 to 20 years for buildings
that are ono.third empty?
Nearly half our children have
no opportunity of attending kin.
dergarten. Is kindergarten ne.
cessary, or only a frill? Why
have some schools nearly ail
advantages of the best city
schools, while others are pro.
viding almost a 19th-century
style •of teaching? Because .we
change, is this for the better?
These are some of the pro-
blems a group of elected re.
presentatives are now consider.
ing in the Huron Interim School
Organization Committee.
On January 1 next year the
Ontario government has stated
there will be one county board
,04pa•tipp,, Their have pnl124r-
USW. a white Paper 9.01.14111g.
.their proposals, The majority
of 1444 in 3'11r41,011,114.00 haYe.
been 'opposed tq this plan, ,but
many Are now bap:wiling reeo.a.
C1.190 ;to the fact that the le0g,.
WIPP tag been brought up in
the .PPeach from the Throne,.
PO Will likely become ,14W in
the next .few weeks, It will be
up to them to .malte the trap.
.sition As istneeth and equitable
as possible.
The present 23 boards wily
merge into one. board, leaving
only the 10 separate schools and
the Calvin Christian School outs
side the system. These repre.
gent abotit .1,600 children in the
county, There will be 14 trustees
elected to .oversee this respori.
sibility, and to control a. bud.
get larger than that of the county
council and municipalities,
There will likely be one
board
schools trustee on this.
board to represent the biterest
of their school system in high
school matters. The electoral
divisions for the remaining 13
positions will be determined by
county council. They will use the
relative amounts of farm and
residential public school as.
sessments to determine equit.
able boundaries for the warcls.
At a meeting in Ridgetown of
some 150 ' trustees from five
counties who met to study this
problem, it was evident that
there were many things trout.
ling the present board mem-
bers. Some of these ,are worth
comment.
1, Is the basis of represen.
tation fair?
Many farmers felt that they,
would have no say in the man.
agement of their schools, and
that the town people would
dominate the board.
Using the tables published by
the county council last year, and
disregarding separate school
supporters who make up asmall
proportion of the electorate, and
omitting villageS for a similar
reason, we find the following;
16 Townships, with population
27,398, farm, residential as.
sessment is $42 million 5 towns
with population 18,123, farm,
residential assessment is $12
million.
It appears that when county
council determines the wards,
they will be giving three.fifths
of the population from the town.
ships over three times thenurn..-
ber of trustees from the towns.
Of course we shall not know
their plan until it is worked out
by our county fathers.
2. Is local taxation fair?
This is perhaps a "Red Her.
ring", in that we can ask if
local taxation was fair in the
past ; hence is, bearing a de.
creasing proportion of educa.
tion costs each year. Last year
the province paid ?Pont 60 per Po4t of our Poste, and the fed•
eral government gave us /ar_V
VantS to the secondary sc.
11091s. The minister of education
has told the legislatare that he
is increasing this AUPPert for 1900,
We Are also.embarking 4'n a
county assessor systern
Ilnren next year, and the pro.
vince hes premised to equalize
all assessments as soon as
possible . As the proposals of
the Carter Smith reports on
taxation are studied, DO doubt.
a still fairer sharing of the tax,
lead will result,
Perhaps the Fernier will still
4ave A lower number of children
per unit of assessment than the
citizen of the, town. How much
does the favourable Position of
the farmer under the Income
Tax Act cOmpensate for this?
The writer is unable to settle
this dispute.
3. The new system will cost
more,
Costs are rising everywhere
in Canada. It would therefore
be nonsense to say that the
county board would cost less
than the present system. In
addition Huron has been SlOW to
update its educational system,
and in the interests of ail our
children there should be more
equality of opportunity.
The important consideration
is whether we are getting value
for our dollar spent. Many
people are convinced thatunder
the small board operation we
are wasting money, and un-
fortunately the larger part c,f
that waste comes from pro:
vincial or federal taxes. Our
watch dogs of the treasuries
in Ottawa and Toronto cannot
view wast of public funds with
equanimity.
Should we find that we have the
equivalent of one new 15-room
school empty in four years
($600,000) or have overbuilt our
high schools by several class
rooms, what is the cost of this
under our present \ system? If
we can take four or five busses
off our townlines, is it possible
there may be a saving here?
I confess' I haven't the answer
to these questions, but no-one
has studied this problem to date.
Boards have not communicated
with each other, nor has the de.
partment of education taken any
leadership in trying to solve
these problems, until now,
4. There will be an increase
in Bureaucracy.
This worries all taxpayers.
The only control is through the
electorate, Certainly the new
board will be directly respon.
sible to the electorate, and if
they waste public money on an
inflated bureaucracy,• the re.
course is to "throw therascals
out." At present, with a large
number of trustees appointed
rather than elected, this con.
trol does not exist,
The, selection of the public
servants on this new board will
be one of the most important
duties the new board faces, If
they are well chosen, we will
have a good system. If they are
poor administrators , it will
affect the whole of Huron's
schools adversely. One highly
paid official may save his sal.
ary costs many times over in
service to the community.
5. A county board is imper.
sonal, and cannot be approached
by the ratepayer.
For many years parents in
the cities have taken their Pro,'
blems to the principal of the
school. By an large this has
worked, In the past most par.
eats in Huron have had no prin.
cipal to approach, and dealt with
their booard member on a per-
sonal basis.
School board meetings are
open to the ratepayer, but it
is a rare event when a rate.
payer attends a meeting. Will
this change with the county
Board?
6, Parent.a. and teachers who.
think their :school is good are
rricthtisstnrdwee a t a
„decrease, and that they will be
subject to arbitrary pootrols,.
It is the intention OAP ,depy
urtment tat considerable free.
don' Will be giveo county
beards, in order that rioidity
wilt not result, Undoubtedly they
Will pick up this directi91.1,, and
:gin* considerable automony to
'principals..
Change will .cOmeaboatslow.
IY because of the cost, as'well
as teaVeld 11PSetting establiSbecl
systems, Even Toronto has had
this problem. The public sphool
that my father and I attended
would now have my grandsenaS
a pupil except for a change
in boundaries,
The Huron Interim School. Or.
gAti pa tion Cpmmittee
The county trustees have
formed a committee from re.
presentatives of each board to
study the problems that will be
faced next year, and to collect
sufficient information to make
the transition to the new man.'
agement with as little clisrupe
Lion as possible. It must he WI,
derstood that this committee
has no powers, even though it
has provincial backing. Present
boards are autonomous. It is
the hope that by discussiori we
can come t o some common
agreement on how the interests
of municipal ratepayers may
be best served for the rest of
this year, and in what manner
the new board may be launched
with as few difficulties as poss.
able.
We are concerned about the
equality of the merger. Some
PubliC school boards have mill
rates as low as 9 and others
as high as 20, Secondary school
rates vary from 9 to 20 mills.
Some Boards have large sure
pluses, some have heavy deben.
tures, and others have no debt.
Some have spanking new build.
ings, and others date from the
last century. These variations.
will have to be reconciled. If
we can reach some agreement,
we may save much unpleasant.,
ness from courts of arbitration
next year,
Your boards have had four
meetings since December. They
will be having many more, in
addition to their own board
duties. At the last meeting every
board but one was represented.
One trustee had a round trip
Of 55 miles.
The ratepayers are getting
value from their representate,
Ives, at their salary of $20
a month. Even at $18,000 a
year we have some members of
parliament who do not attend.
all meetings of the house.
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