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Although the 16 member
Huron County Board of
Education invited the five county
high schools' English department
heads and their principals and.
students to defend the use of
some contemporary books in the
schools, few of its board members
had any questions for the
defenders at Monday night's
special board meeting.
Most questions came from
Seaforth area trustee John
Henderson.
Why not stick to the classics
instead of teaching contemporary
books which may contain bad
language, he asked Wingham
English head Audrey Tiffin.
Both types of books are
needed, Mrs. Tiffin replied, and
help students know more about'
life, The classic "Tale of Two
Cities", has a leading character
almly knitting while blood pours
in the gutters, she said. - The
language in the novel is good,
erhaps because "they're heads
vere off before they could say
nything wrong", she, joked.
Good Students
He asked Elizabeth •Twiss,
lead of English at Central Huron
n Clinton, if she was aware that
Students make fun of • the
contemporay books, but not of the
classics. "There are mOle good
students than bad ones," Mrs.
wiss • replied.
If "The Diviners" is such
good book, why isn't it taught in
all Huron secondary schools, the
trustee asked Sherwood eddy,
lead of English at SouthHuron in
xeter where the book is on the
course of study, Mr. Eddy said
e'd certainly encourage 'Other
apartment heads to use the book
they had a course on finding
deadly, like the Exeter Grade 13
nglish course where the book is
sed, "It's the book that my
talents tend to like most."
After a defense of the novel by
Exeter Grade 13 student Blake
Palmer, the McKillop trustee
commented pass,
Blake."
Mrs, Tiffin told Mr, Henderson
that she found it hard to
understand why the Lakefield
110°1 Board had taken- --The
Diviners off courses there. "It's
one of-Margaret Laurence's best
books".
In a spirited discussion with
SDHS principal Bruce Shaw, Mr,
enderso'n asked if the difficulty
ri getting kids interested in books
vas "the reason for bringing
hese sex books in. If sex book-s
and sex education are so good
why doesn't the number of
egnant girls in school go down
nstead of up?" he asked.
Kids are interested in sex
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essengers meet
21 members and two visitors
ho attended the Messengers of nor United Church on Sunday
offing all joined in to sing a •
aPPY Birthday" to Donna
tggiifis -
The pre-school children went
or a short walk under the
u,pervision of Mrs: Murray lucent; Alison Roberts and Mrs.
(keit Taylor. On returning to
he church the children ssembled their Mother's Da y ft, Mrs. Jack Higgins took the
kler children for a walk to the
ark observing all the different Ypes of nature We enjoy in the P
Mrs. Robert Taylor gave an teresting talk on the collection
kiting the year had been sent to tit
Stifiday School Vogel' child
Suite Who live in Bali:
earlier and "books have nothing'
to do with it one way or another".
the Seaforth principal replied.
Board vice chairman Marian
Zinn described Mrs. Tiffin as a
former president of the Huron
Perth United Church Women and
asked the Wingham teacher how
she squares teaching these books
with her Christian beliefs, The
books in question have few
conflicts with the Christian ethic
Mrs, Tiffin replied, and added
that she tried to bring that ethic
out in the classroom.
Black people
One parent objected to her
teaching "Black Like Me", Mrs.
Tiffin said, because it had black
people in it. "And she didn't say
"black people" either."
Clinton and Tuckersmith
trustee Dorothy Williams
suggested that 'English teachers
could invite parents to come and
sif in on the classroom when
"objectional parts" of books are
being discussed, so that they can
see how the material is taught.
The books are taught in grades
11, 12 and 13 n ow. Mightn't they
be taught at the grade 9 and 10
level in 10 years time, separate
school rep Eugene Frayne asked
the department heads.
Not necessarily, Mrs. Tiffin
told him, depending on the level
of the students then, "Tale of
Two Cities" was great in grade 9,
30 years ago and it's still great" ,
she said. Teachers and writers -
don't change the world, she said,
"it'd be nice if we could."
Wingham area trustee Jack
Alexander wanted to know if
grade 9 and 10 students call get
the books on their own in the
school libraray.They could, Mrs.
Tiffin said, but as soon as a book
becomes a text, students often
lose interest in it.
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