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Times-Advocate, 1978-02-23, Page 5FURNITURE LTD. (WATER REDC The ultimate in sleeping comfort TRY ONE SOON HOPPER-HOCKEY The readers write -r-r- ■ c-t r ■ Decorate your home with beautiful CUSTOM DRAPES Choose the fabrics and the styles you want and Barb Whiting will custom make your drapes for you. You can also choose matching bedspreads and pillow shams. WHITING'S WAREHOUSE Times-Advocate, February 23, 1978 To the Editor: By the time this appears in print, the strike by the Huron County high school teachers may well be settl­ ed. Even so, it has already shown to me that the teachers and the Board of Education in our county have little, if any, con­ fidence in their own product, the persons which have been prepared by a minimum of 10 years, often 12 years, of public education for respon­ sible citizenship and par­ ticipatory democracy. During the Spring of 1977, I participated as a parent in an evaluation procedure for grades 7 through 13 in the southern part of Huron County; at stake were the educational facilities and provisions necessary for good education. These involved from the public’s side learned a little about the philosophy of education in the school system. I also attended a few Board of Education meetings, among these the one in which the high school principals and department heads defended the choice of books for their Engligh literature courses. From these experiences I have gathered that one aim of the teachers and the Board is to help the young people become mature per­ sons, who can think for themselves, make up their own minds, free and freed from any parental or cultural influence opinions, a laudable goal, to be sure. A few students were pre­ sent at one Board meeting to demonstrate this desired in­ tellectual freedom and mature outlook. The ironic thing, however, is that those who were so taught during the last few years, are to some extent at least at work today, paying taxes and eligible to vote. Suddenly their independent thinking is no longer necessary when it comes to the educational process and even to the matter of a strike. The very teachers who es- pouse responsible citizenship, who would en­ courage participation in various social actions for freedom, justice and righteousness in the world, now apparently want the public (including those who were led to become mature and free thinkers) to sit in the stands with the lights out, while somewhere in the dark Board and teachers are struggling in what must be a very important battle. Information, apart from some emotional statements, remains scarce. The very people who have tried their level best to free the young generations from all the old-fashioned apronstrings of society, now declare by their actions that these same younger generations, together with the general public, cannot be trusted with the full infor­ mation, cannot participate in democratic fashion by be­ ing informed fully and in reasonable time, and by be­ ing given the opportunity to make responsible represen­ tations to the teachers and/or the Board. I am forced to conclude that the teachers are trying to free the younger generations from all kinds of apronstrings, including moral and religious ones, except from one kind, the Main St. Exeter 235-1964 v J VISIT OUR STORE AND ACTUALLY SEE WHAT YOU'LL BE WEARING FORMAL Huronview people entertained TOP USBORNE SPEAKERS — Two boys will represent Usborne Central School at the annual public speaking contest scheduled by the Crediton Men's Club. The two were chosen from among 10 speakers, Friday. Being congratulated by one of the judges, Diane Jeffery, are Mike Stewart' and Danny Shute. T-A photoRENTALS Excellent Selection in the latest styles. Well help you look your best for that i Special Occasion. The Clinton Kinette club entertained their adopted grandmothers at a Valentine Party Tuesday morning in the ground north dining­ room. Mrs. Alma Davis and Miss Dora Jackson thanked the Kinettes on behalf of the Grandmothers. The tables in the were arranged decorated for the Valentine Dinner. During the day the Huronview Orchestra serenaded each of the areas with appropriate music. The Clinton Women’s Institute were hostesses on Wednesday afternoon for the February Birthday Party. Mrs. Connie Colclough, president of the Institute, brought greetings and Mrs. Lyla Johnson was EmCee for the programme and provided the piano ac­ companiment. Mrs. Homuth sang two vocal numbers and HomeEXETERmain st. Aden's Shoppe f Sugar and SpicePIZZA THE WAREHOUSE WAY SAVE 235-2521 MED. CHEESE 3.00 LARGE CHEESE 4.00 SMALL CHEESE 2.00 YOU AIN’T TASTED PIZZA TIL YOU’VE TASTED OURS 11-1 Sun. 12-10 MED.SMALL 4.953.95 LARGE 5.95 selected blend of the Finest Canadian Cheeses. GOLDEN CRUST - that can’t be beat COST PER ITEM: HamPepperoni O ives SalamiBacon Sliced Tomato Onions Ground BeefAnchoviesMushrooms led a sing-a-long. Mrs, Leona Lockhart gave a reading; there were piano solos by Gladys Van Egmond and vocal duets by George Turner and Stanley Johns. Following the programme gifts were presented to the celebrants and lunch was served by the ladies. Miss Bertha Diehl thanked the Institute for providing the lovely party. The residents are enjoying the treat of apples donated by the Clinton L.O.B.A. Many thanks. apronstrings of the teachers. Mature people such as the teachers and the Board should have been able to provide together to the public information which would reasonably present their positions. If the quality of education were really at stake, parents and public could have informed the Board to come to an agree­ ment with the teachers. / If the issue were a job­ security with far-reaching financial and policy conse­ quences, the Board’s posi­ tion could have been sup­ ported. As it is now, public and parents, the taxpayers, are for all practical pur­ poses disenfranchised. The way the Board and the teachers have acted in this matter is but a confession that the educational process has failed: the public is still but an assembly of dum­ mies, while those in the know will decide for the public, without the public, at the cost of the public. It is high time that in education matters be prac­ ticed as they are preached: government by the people, for the people, through the people. The Board of Educa­ tion is elected by the people as a whole, to provide the kind of education desired by the people. The teachers are employed by the Board on behalf of the people, and therefore are ultimately responsible to the people. And the people must get together in a responsible manner to provide a discus­ sion forum and a sounding board where the educational issues and the economic con­ sequences can be openly dis­ cussed before policies are set and landed on the people. When all is said and done, the Board and the teachers are the servants of the peo­ ple. That does not mean that the people are God, Who knows it all; but neither are the Board nor the teachers. Yet, as it is now, I, for one, often get the impres-« sion that the gods battle it out at the top of Mount Olympus, while we ordinary people wait anxiously at the feet of the mountain in darkness wondering where it all will end. 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