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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-03-08, Page 20SPECIALS THIS WEEK Schneider's SUMMER SAUSAGE Chunks $1.49 lb. PIZZAS Pkg. of 4 1.39 York ICE CREAM pare CANDY 1 lb. bag gum drops jelly beaos 794 Or jubes BRUSSELS 'WeDeRver Phone 887.9445' (Cont-Owed. from. Page 1) from the Walton. school recom- mendation. • The closing of the Walton school would save $1.18 on. the tax bill for his 200 acre farm, Mr,. McDonaldtold the beard. He disputed Mr, Henderson's claim that parents opposed to closing the school didn't represent a Cress. section and weren't the same" people who wanted full facilities for their. children when schools' were centrali zed seven years ago. After vacating the' chair, trustee John Elliott of Blyth repeated that he'd like .the committee , to look at all boundaries in the county before touching physical facilities. The board appointed someone to study boundaries three years ago and nothing has been done,, countered Mr, Henderson. The board had asked his committee to review enrolment and - then refused to even study one recommendation. "We're lost now," the MeKillop trustee said: The hoard did agree to study and make a decision by ,April on the Henderson committee's two other recommendations, boundary adjuStments that would see sonic Brussels Public School students attend E, Wawanosh Public School and all. Hallett Township secondary school students attend CHSS in Clinton, Spokesman for the Walton delegation was former. trustee 'and board ehairman Wilfred Shortreed. We'frealize that declining enrol- ments must indeed be a difficult problem to deal with, and restricted budgets make seeking solutions to this problem a MUSt, However, closing Walton School and shifting Grade 8 classes to Seaforth High School, would not solve the Board's problem. In all li kelihood, any cost saving to the Board by closing Walton School would only be negated by the unmatured Debenture on the School, since the unpaid balance of the Debenture (both Principal and Interest) would become the total responsibility of the ratepayers of Huron County," the brief said, and it went on to urge that the board study "present costs, projected enrolments and school attendance boundaries for all schools" before making any decision to close Walton Public. A Post Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial Brussels 887-6641. Utopia Canned TOMATOES 19 oz. 89' 2 liters 99' Free Delivery ICE CREAM Chapman's Phone 887-9226 STEPHENSON'S Bakery Moms Soft MARGARINE 1 lb. tub 59' Weston's 6. to a pack. HOT CROSS BUNS 59' Puritan Frontier NEW DINNER STEW 24 oz. 99' Sunlight Liquid DETERGENT 24 oz. 69' Grocery Does your car KA and, . LET US SMOOTH OUT THE BUMPS This coupon good for 10% Discount ON ALL G.M. exhaust parts includes exhaust pipes, tail pipes, mufflers, a clamps Offer Good to March 31st. >14 ‘liniursov -40! McCUTCHEON MOTORS Chev. Brussels 887-6856 Olds 20 THE BRUSSELS POST, MARCH 8,1978 Walton school won't close According t'14 a recent magazine article, this is going to be The Year of the Peacock. There is afoot a strong movement away from the grub and slob of the past decade or so toward some style and taste in clothes and appearance. drink to that. - As a high school teacher, I've been in the front line during the battles Over clothes, hair lengths,axposed navel, and such-like. Not as a participant — 1 was never unduly exercised over excesses — but rather as an observer, During the reigns of a couple of pretty conservative principals in a small town, I watched with some amusement, occasionally hilarity, their Canute-like efforts to stem the flood of horrors sweeping in from, the cities. I think the first wave was longer hair for boys. Not the flowing tresses they sport today, many of them straight from the hair stylist, others with a hair-brush or comb often in evidence, • Heavens, no. The first rebels merely wanted to let their hair grow down to their collars. No way. They were expelled, letters were sent home, they were offered the price of a hair-cut, and generally harassed. But that was just the tip • of the ice-berg. A side skirmish at the same time told teachers to keep their hair cut, wear a tic, shave off their beards (lady teachers, some of whom - had better beards than some of the • men, didn't have to shave) and keep their shoes shined. Then the more docile girls got into the act, with the emergence of the mini-skirt. None of the younger male teachers had the slightest objection, but some of the old maids of both sexes were rather horrified. I believe, if I recollect aright, that one benighted educator suggested all teachers carry ander, and that skirts shorter than a . certain standard be forbidden. (Or ripped off. It might have been one of the young male teachers.) Beleaguered administrators tried griMly to' hold the .line. Boys were not to wear. "ice-cream pants" or jeans. Girls must wear skirts. Then came the deluge. County school boards, made up of mothers and fathers as cowardly as all the other parents battling the new wave of attire and appearance, cut the ground from under the administrators by 'declaring that anything went, as long as the student was "neat and tidy" or some such cant phrase.. Wham! Hair sprouted in all directions from masculine adolescents. The girls hiked their skirts higher or leaped into jeans. Granny glasses and Mother Hubbard dresses became de rigeurwith the more advanced girls. Afro hair styles and Jesus beards marked the-more hirsute. Hip-hugger jeans and the . bra-less look were a la mode, Girls ironed .their hair. Curls were out, and pity the poor kid who had ?them naturally. She was a freak.. -Then theyoung devils wanted to wear cool clothes in the hot months, and June produced shorts that left nothing to the imagination on both Sexes, bikini halters on the girls, bare feet in the classroom and finally, beachwear., Every bit of it "neat and tidy." This was followed by the Grease Age, or the Sleaze Era, mainly marked by denim. Buy a new 'pair of jeans and a jacket, wash them, fade them, shrink them, scissor them so they had ragged fringes, tear holes in them, patch them, and sew some provocative or scato- logical suggestion across the buttocks. This particular period blow .away completely the "neat and tidy" euphemism. Greasy hair, scruffy beards, no makeup and general grubbiness .were the order of the clay. Not a particularly pleasant age. Even I had to fight to avoid retching on -occasion: And this particular movement dovetailed right into . the new laws that lowered the drinking age to 18, In effect, it meant that kids from 14 up, began to drink. Grade Eight girls were arriving at high school dances with a mickey in :their purses. It also tied into a new barrack-room lawyer attitude on - the part of some of the tougher kids. They knew well that punishment . for infringement of rules was almost a thing of the past. No strap, no detention and expulsion merely a welcome Touple of weeks' holiday. Or screw school, I'll get a job, easy. Well, things have changed. For the better. The pendulum has swung.. The kids are starting to dislike slobbishness. Only those who are born-slobs are keeping it up. Girls are wearing makeup, culottes, skirts, even dresses. Wispy boys' beards are disappearing. Short- er, neater hair-cuts are popping up here and there. With jobs a lot tougher to obtaih, the old cavalier attitude toward- expulsion has moderated. The older kids are hanging in there rather grimly, .knowing that, however much they hate school , it's better than being one of the great mass of the unemplOyed, out there in the snow. • Whatever is causing it,..the new look is a welcome change 'after the sleaze days. .Even my daughter, a graduate of the freaked-out look, is beginning 'to shed her tattered jeans for skirts .and vests, smart sweaters, and anything else ladylike her mother will buy her. But knowing kids, I'm rather sanguine about the chances of the improvement remaining stable. Any day now, the boys are Iiablc'to start showing up in spats and shaven heads, the girls' in corsets and high-laced, boots, like their grandmothers. Now, if only the young men would get rid of those ugly Gay Nineties moustaches... Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley A new look Fitness. In your heart you know it's right.