HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-09-27, Page 4think that's. one of the paramount problems
facing the hc.-ard,') said Mr. Elliott, The
board should look at curriculum and see
where it's heading before it starts looking-
seriously at single areas."
Mrs, Zinn reminded the board that the.
technical 'directors, had made a presentation
to the board 'and that it was. the board's
responsibility to do something about it,
"There's no reason we wouldn't," said
. Mrs Wallace, "The crunch may get so bad.
we have to go back to teaching kids the 3R's
and send them . to the private sector- to
apprentice for
a.
trade,"
Colborne trustee Shirley Hazlitt suggested
that the board would probably get another
presentation from another department head
outlining similar 'problems, She said it was
time the board zeroed in on the whole
problem.
...!`lf we
directors
had meetings with the technical
we may solve some problems,"
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4 7 THE BRUSSELS POST, SEPTEMBER 27, 1978
• Board grapples with lack of money
The Huron. County Board of Education
wants to try to solve financial probelms
pinning technical and commercial de-
partments in county high schools before it
deals with academic areas and stingy supply
budgets. •
Trustees realize that budget conditions
could seriously hamper the operation of
techncial, commercial and academic pro-
grams in the fhture in 'the five county
secondary schools but chose to deal with one.
area at a time.
• jbel board was asked in April of 1977 b y
W.S. Craig, Technical director at Central
,Huron Secondary School in Clinton,. to give
icrpus thought to allocating more funds to
technical equipment replacement in schools.
Mr. Craig told thoboard that the equipment
in the schools was old and outdated and not
only was in poor repari but was inadequate
for today's teaching needs. He said the
equipment in use in technical shops was over
20 years old and technology had advanced to
-the point that students learning techniques
On the old machinery were totally un- •
prepared for post secondarS, training or' to
take jobs.
Mr. Craig asked the board to conic to the
shops..in the schbols and seelor itself he
condition of the equipment. He said the
issue was 'Slowly killing". technical pro-
grams and required immediate. attention and
suggested communication •between the.
hoard and its teachers may help' find -
solutions.
That request sparked the. board into
forming a committee which did tour the
seheols, The committee gave technical
equipmetu. replaCement top priority in the
budget but that priority amounted to $$.00.
Mr. Craig later expanded his request to
include commercial equipment pointing out
that commercial programs were in the same
dilemma as' technical,
.Ashfield trustee Marion -Zinn suggested
that the board establish a committee to work
on, problems affecting the technieal de-
partments since that area. had already been
:studied by the board. •
Goderich. trustee Dorothy Wallace asked if
that recommendation wasnt meariy "nib-
bling away" at the real problem. She said
the board faced -similar crisis in-other areas
of education and should be attempting to
forecast capital expenses in the entire
system to enable the board establish future
spending priorities..
"It seems to me the technical costs are
part of the Whole system," said Mrs.
Wallace. "We're getting shorter and shorter
of dollars and can't keep going to the public,
for more. We haven't assessed any
priorities to, See, if it is more important to.
feed Money into .the technical areas or
something else,"
Board chairman John Elliott said re-
presentatives of technical departments had
done a considerable amount to get more
consideration at budget time and the budget
oommittee had funnelled all the money
possible to meet technical needs.
',There just wasn't enough money and
pointed out Clinton trustee Dorothy Wil ,
Hams ,
Education director John Cochratie agreed
with Mrs. Hazlitt pointing out that the board
isgoing to get each individual' ,departmenV's
interests. Mr, Cochrane said the heads will
be at the board meetings "Screaming and
yelling for all the money they can get"
adding they should be doing that as
deParmtent heads.
°The board will get a feagmented
impression of the problems if it hears each
individual and should be looking at the
whole problem," said Mr. 'Cochrane.
The board agreed to the formation 'of a
committee made up of trustees and an
administrator to look into financial problems
affecting technical departments.
"What are we going to do next meeting
when we have four more of these
requests?" asked Exeter trustee Clarence
McDonald.