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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-08-24, Page 27'Diviners' gets boot ns Board buckles under Tknes-Advocate, August 24, 1978 ------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------- r Dance PARTY Fri., Aug. 25 HURON PARK ANNEX Admission $2.00 J r r Sat., Aug., 26th Music By ACADIA Lunch Provided Everyone Welcome The issue surrounding the three books — Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, banned one of three books for use in the five secondary schools in the county. 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Salinger and The Diviners by Margaret Laurence — has involved hundreds of county ratepayers, students and teachers' in the past months and in a surprise move at Monday night’s board of education meeting, Seaforth trustee John Henderson asked the board to take The Diviners off its list of approved novels. Henderson made the re quest when the board was in the process of approving a list of textbooks for use in high schools during the 1978- 79 school year. He told the board the book was im proper for use in county classrooms adding that he felt the board would be “slighting our job” if it allowed the book to be taught. The board meeting was witnessed by about 40 peo ple, most of whom were members of the Huron branch of the Renaissance Group. The Renaissance movement is dedicated to “cleaning up our schools” as Huron branch spokesman Lloyd Barth said Monday night. The whole question of the board approving material for use in the classroom came under fire prior to Henderson’s request for banning The Diviners. Colborne Trustee Shirley Hazlitt suggested that the board’s sanctioning of books for use in classrooms was a “farce”. Hazlitt said it “seems silly for the trustees to sit down and read a list of books they know nothing about and say yes you can teach this, no you can’t teach this”. The Colborne trustee pointed out that many trustees have been away from the classroom at mosphere for long periods of time and that many had no professional experience in teaching to know why material would be beneficial or not beneficial in a classroom. “It just doesn’t add up,” she said. Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace added that trustees are in no position to read a mathematics text or a science text and judge its merits or benefits for use and said she felt the same about English textbooks. Board chairman John Elliott told the board that the books in question were slated for use in classrooms this year. He said they would be used in Grade 13 optional English courses in Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton and South 4 Huron Secondary School in Harry Hav&r, Exeter., Elliott explained McDonald.’SOi that the optional courses are ~ ‘ “ available for students that may need that course credit to enter some university courses and that students were not required to take the course to get enough credits for their Grade 13 diploma. Henderson said he realiz ed students not wishing to study any of the books in question, or any other text book in use in the school, had the option of taking another book. He said board policy permits a student to avoid a textbook to which he or she is opposed, allowing these students to be taught from another text on the board’s approved list. Henderson said depart ment heads in the schools prepare examinations on books the majority of students are studying and claimed that if students had requested to take another book “they are pretty well on their own”. ‘‘If they haven’t taken the book they have a pretty slim chance of passing,” he said. Dorothy Wallace remind ed the board of the concerns teachers had expressed about banning the books. She said the teachers claimed if the board this year banned the three books here and next year banned the three under fire in Wellington County and the year after that the three under fire in Nova Scotia teachers may find themselves not knowing where to turn for represen tative Canadian Literature. ‘‘We’re not taking the books away from the students and teachers. We’re just taking them out of the system,” said Hender son. “If this is Canadian Literature then I don’t want it.” Zurich trustee Herb Turkheim pointed out that most of the students being taught the books would be 18 years of age and that they .would be permitted at that age to vote, become soldiers and sign million dollar con tracts to play professional sports. “And yet we tell them they’re not old enough to read these books,” he said. Turkheim added that he felt is it much wiser to have a professional teaching the book and putting it in its proper perspective than to have students ‘‘reading them in bed at night and tak ing their own meaning.” Henderson asked board chairman John Elliott to take a recorded vote on the books. John Alexander. Donald Peck, JHender- trayne, ,/ey and Clarence McDonald were in favor of removing The Diviners while Cayley Hill, Shirley Hazlitt, Dorothy Wallace, Dorothy Williams, Marion Zinn and Herb Turkheim opposed the move. Anxious to prevent a recurrence of the book ban ning issue the board looked at a policy that would re quire a teacher to choose material for use in classrooms justifying any decisions to the board. In that way the board hoped to have professional expertise go into decisibns on what would be qsfb^in the classrooms ' arid^^nit the burden of the decision on the teachers. The board felt that since the teachers make most of the decisions on books and the trustees merely rubber stamp the request for books, the teachers should have to defend their choices. The policy put before the board for approval was re jected since it was apparent some trustees did not want teachers to have the power to choose material without any board involvement. John Henderson said the policy before the board denied the board power leav ing the entir£n$|k|on up to the teachers. ’1 The policy prepared for the board was. written by director of edtOttdtt John Cochrane woraHig with superintendents, secondary school principals, English department heads and teachers, and was designed to make teachers responsi ble for the choice of materials and make them responsible to handle com plaints about their choice of texts for classroom use. Cochrane told the board that the policy would force the complainant to take his or her case to as close to the source of the^cpmplaint as possible, ther^cher in the classroom, ifnd satisfaction was received ' there, the complainant •bcyf^ihen in volve the tru&^W the board level. " It was Cochrane' who suggested that the board not adopt the policy prepared since it was obvious it did not agree with it. He said some trustees have made it clear the board did not want teachers making decisions on^what/should beitaughtlnor did they believe that professional freedom and accountability was essential to the teaching profession. Charles Rat^'J® son, Eugeni Murray Mu| f r r ^DELAWARE SPEEDWAY Paul Riddell Hell Drivers Adults $3.00 Children 12 & under $1,00 5 miles west of city limits at Delaware. BEAN ° Frog Jumping CONTEST (Bring your <>w n Frog or Toad) • i Party for GLEN RITCHIE For JOHN LAWSON at LYLE STEEPER'S SHED Fri., Aug. 25th Sat., Aug. 26 9 — ? GRAND BEND LEGION 9:00 P.M. Lunch Provided k.J >1 Bean Festival Mall Area MID-AFTERNOON (Specific time will be announced over the Public Address Sjstem) PRIZES DONATED BY DR. C.J. WALLACE ▼ B JACKPOT 5500 1 51 calls N 11 Reg. games $10 prize 3 Special games $12 prize 1 Share-the-wealth game G O Wed., Aug. 30 8:30 P.M. ZURICH ARENA SPONSOREMY ZURICH RECjgt^O NO PERSON16 WILL BE ADMITTED OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK EXETER 235-231 1 GRANDMA'S SUBMARINES 1 admission per person No Reserve Seats Admission $1.00 for 1 8 Rounds Extra cards 25c each or 5/$1.00 Share-the-Wealth - 2 cards for 25c Sponsored By Ladies' Auxiliary : No One Under 16 Years of Age Will Be Admitted atiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiuiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Licence No. 212181 TILL THURS LIVERPOOL PORK BARBECUE KIRKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Saturday, August 26 ADMISSION: $5.00 Adults $2.50 Children 12 And Under SPONSORED BY: Kirkton-Woodham Swimming Pool Management Committee SLOW-PITCH GAME 6:30 P.M. ' KIRKTON vs CFPL" Dance to "The Rancheros" Proceeds to pool maintenance s r Sjl - . On Saturday, August 26th while at the Zurich Bean Festival join in the events planned by the Zurich Minor Athletic Association FRIDAY & SATURDAY •DIXIE FLYERS * In the morning Pancake and Sausage Breakfast - at the main mall. Starting at 7:30 A.M.' to 1J A.M. * In the evening dance - 2 orchestras - Mozarfs Melody Makers & Star Trtex - at the Zurich Community Centre. See You There North On Richmond St 227-4411