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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-04-20, Page 7TO BUY Please Phone 237-3380 1 COACHLIGHT | ANTIQUES | RR 1 Dashwood niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii UNUSUAL AWARDS — Its not too often that the two best male "greasers” in a school receive some recognition butsuchwas the case at "Greaser day” held Thursday at Exeter Public school. Receiving monetary rewardsfrom student council represen tatives Dave Delbridge and Kevin Parsons are Scott Bogart and Dennis Eisenschink T-A photo Antiques Glass China Brass Furniture Jewellery etc. Times-Advocate, April 20, 1973 Page 7 You'll Be Mad If You Miss This Friday — 6:00 to Midnite Every Item In The Store Yes...Even Our New Spring And Summer Fashions SHOP EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION Plus...Several Special Racks Clearing At V3and V2off Ladies' 5 Wear SPECIAL TABLE COSMETICS These MAIN ST. EXETER You'll Want To Stay Awake For Bargains Smiles 'n Chuckles Patties • Plates • Serviettes • Cups • Odds 'n Ends HEK BIG SAVERS HAVE WE GOT FOOD BUYS FOR YOU Move lily outside Before deciding to throw out your Easter lily, con sider transplanting it in the garden. Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum) can be grown successfully outdoors, says Theo Blom, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food horticulturist. If you’re lucky, they may bloom again in the fall. Once the plant has bloom ed indoors, remove the anthers from the flowers and keep the plant well watered in a cool room. Mr. Blom says lilies enjoy good light, but not direct sunlight. As soon as danger of frost is past, remove the plant from the pot and transplant to a partially-shaded section of the garden. Lilies prefer light soils with good drainage and water-holding capacity, but without high fertility. Because the Easter lily is not entirely winter-hardy, Mr. Blom recommends us ing a thick mulch of leaves and straw to cover the bulbs. If the winter is not too severe, the bulbs should grow and flower again next year. Another method of protec ting bulbs for the winter is to dig them up complete with roots, and store them in a cool, dry place. 68*lb. Devon Brand SIDE 39BACONThe readers write 78*lb. 99*Vac Vs, lb. 89’lb. Gwyn Whilsmith THIS FRIDAY 6:00 TO 12:00 > .55 .29 3 lb. avg., lb. f bring all under their and their’s Just Heat & Eat, lb. fMaple Leaf Breaded Sausage ■jj iWRIORFOODMARKE^^A&HSUPERIORFOODMARKET Maple Leaf, Regular or All Beef Wieners Fresh whole cut up, for frying Chickens Maple Leaf, Smoked Cottage Rolls Maple Leaf, Sliced or Piece Bologna Fresh Grade "A" FRYING CHICKEHS 3-3 ]/2 avg., 24 oz. 1 CHEESE SLICES 32 oz. keg Van Camps FROZEN FOOD Rupert Haddock Fish Sticks o’1.49 Produce ofsU.S.A., Mini Carrots 10 oz., Pkg. 39 Peter Pan or Superior Bread • 3/’1.15 — Continued from Page 4 Over the intervening years, bit by bit, the authority of the board (and hence the public) has been eroded until now we have a system run almost com pletely by the autonomous Teachers' Federations who flex their muscles by striking and often force boards into unfortunate decisions. Before this goes any further, we, the public, had better waken up to the fact that the 0TF will con tinue in a plan that will eventually education jurisdiction alone. If the teachers want to gain back their credibility and the respect of the community it is our opinion they will have to clean up some areas of their act. It has become virtually impossible to discharge a teacher from his or her duties in this age. Our un derstanding is that a teacher can only be let go if he or she is found having.a problem with alcohol, having an affair with a student, or is incompetent in the classroom. Trying to prove any of these is difficult and the charges must be sup ported by both the teacher’s principal and the superin tendent. It is a matter of history, now, that a school board close to us, opted to go to court to prove incompetence, lost the case after spending several thousand dollars, and still had a teacher on its hands nobody wanted. As far as we can learn, only one secondary teacher has been discharged in Huron County in several years. Yet, there are other incompetent teachers in the system. . . .the board knows it, the students and parents know it, and surely the teachers know it, too. The Medical Association is very careful to whom it gives the privilege of practising medicine. If a doctor makes a mistake he can be sued for malpractice. A shady lawyer can be disbarred from practicing law, but a kinky school teacher can go on forever secure in his position that he can almost never be discharged once he has passed his two years of probation. Most other professionals have to prove themselves every day. Either they are productive or out they go. If teachers want to control so much of the authority in education they should be prepared to police their ranks and weed out the ones who are not performing at their jobs. They discredit themselves by their frenetic behavior of flying to the defence of a fellow teacher even when they know that teacher is not doing the job he should be doing. I believe the Teachers’ Federations were formed for the protection of teachers and education. That’s fine, but the only trouble is that, that protection seems to go only one direction. It is my feeling that the reason the board of education received such strong support in the recent strike was not because of any of the clauses up for negotiation. What the public was really saying, I think, is “We want to have more control as to what goes on in our schools and education system.” We are happy the strike is over; we pray it will never happen again but unless we all become more aware of what is going on there could be trouble up the road again. I agree with Mr. Ellison that a good teacher’s lot is not an easy one. Dr. Charles Galloway, an educational expert lecturing at the an nual Institute on Community Colleges in Sarnia last spring remarked there are few rewards other than money being bestowed on teachers these days. He said there is a loss of incentive to do good work because it is seldom recognized or rewarded. He also stated, “If you (teachers) continue to serve your own self-interests, even be poor teachers, serve on no committees, create no new courses and do no in tramural work you can still make it in the system.” He also observed that persons on the outside of education see the teachers’ job as soft, although for those who operate in the system there is a risk of uncertainty and poor communication. He stated that while collective bargaining may solve some problems it is not the best or only balm. The best solution, he said, is simply stated: “trust”. “We are going to have to create a trust or the public is going to get us.” Our trust has been sorely tried in the past few weeks. We hope it will be restored again for the sake of those many dedicated and hard working teachers, like Mr. Ellison, to whom we owe so much. Batt’n Around — Continued from Page 4 attraction now consists primarily ot the 4-H show. Given normal fall weather conditions, the event is capably held outdoors, using the ex isting facilities. Considerably more use would have to be envisioned for a permanent building of the size being considered before it would be justified. A cement pad covered by a roof would possibly serve more purposes in that it could be used for roller skating, an outdoor winter rink, special warm weather activities, skate-boarding, pic nic pavilion, dances, etc. It could be covered with a layer of dirt for a show ring when required. In the winter, it could possibly be used as additional parking for the rec centre. 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