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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-12-02, Page 9THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987. PAGE 9. Huron-Perth Bd. wants $6 million for school BY WILMA OKE The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board will ask the Ministry of Education for more than $6 million to build a Catholic secondary school in Strat­ ford, which it hopes will be ready for students in 1990, for Grades 9 to 13. The present secondary school in Stratford is St. Michael with Grades 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in six classrooms, two science laborator­ ies, one business studies room, one multi-purpose room, one special education room and four portables. John McCauley, Superintendent of Education while discussing the 1988 capital requests to the Ministry of Education, explained the board received a capital allocation from the ministry in 1987 for $125,000 for the capital needs at St. Michael. It was used in all subject areas, with particular emphasis on laboratory facilities and equipment. Mr. McCauley said their science needs will be adequately met until 1990 when a new secondary school will be needed. He said the board’s major accommodation concern at St. Michael School is that “the entire campus will be filled by portable classrooms and parking by 1989”, which he reported to the ministry, to emphasize the space problem. Mr. McCauley said the 1988 to 1989 enrolment projection for its secondary school shows it increas­ ing from 258 in 1988 with Grades 9 to 11 to 424 in 1991 with grades 9 to 13, and after that probably increas­ ing to between 435 to 465. By 1989 Mr. McCauley said it is expected that Grade 7 and 8 students accommodated at St. Michael will be moved to either St. Ambrose or St. Aloysius elemen­ tary schools in Stratford. With full funding of Catholic high schools and the resulting transfer of Catholic students to separate high school, teachers in the public schools are losing their jobs. To rectify this, the Perth County Board and the Huron-Perth County Roman Cath­ olic Board are in the process of working out a formal agreement to transfer teachers who are displac­ ed by the changing enrolment on the ratio of 16 students for each transferred teacher. Two teachers have already moved from the Perth Board to St. Michael School voluntarily. In other business the trustees approved the working drawings for the addition and renovations at St. Ambrose separate school with work to be carried out in the spring. Special education self-contained classes, located at this time at St. Aloysius School will be transferred to St. Ambrose School by Septem­ ber 1988. The special education classes will be attended by all exceptional elementary pupils in Stratford and Perth County. With Immaculate Conception School closing at the end of June, 1988, allthe students from Kin­ dergarten to Grade 7 will be transferred to St. Ambrose School with the start of school in Septem­ ber, 1988, with bus transportation provided. All Grade 8 pupils in Stratford will continue to attend St. Michael School during the 1988-89 school term. Grade 7 students from St. Joseph’s School will be moved to St. Alovsius in September, 1988, and the Grade 8 students from St. Joseph’s wjll be moved to the same school in 1989.***** With the International Plowing Match to be held in Perth County from September 20-24 in 1988, the Huron-Perth County Roman Cath­ olic Separate School Board will take advantage of the opportunity to display the school program to visitorsatthe match. The board will rent a booth 60 feet wide and 10 feet deep to display students’ art, writing, Science Fair projects, French immersion, Religion/Fam- ily Life education, etc. On a stage outside the education and health tent, students will have the opportunity to perform music, drama, choral reading, physical education and other student in­ volvement. The cost to the board will be about $6,000. ***** The trustees are concerned about a proposal by the Ministry of Education to redistribute trustees based on population rather than property assessment. Trustee Ron Murray of Dublin said this would not be fair to small boards as they will have fewer trustees to cover larger rural areas. If this proposal becomes law, Mr. Murray said the Huron-Perth Board could lose two trustees. Board Chairman David Durand of Zurich agreed with Mr. Murray that the board would be short­ changed by redistribution but before writing the ministry to express the board’s concern they shouldwaitfor Jack Lane, Superin­ tendent of Business and Finance to figure out which areas of the two counties will bq affected. Mr. Murray said the ministry is not making provision for small boards and they should be keeping their same numbers as they have now. The board unanimously endors­ ed the AIDS curriculum as de­ veloped by the Institute for Catholic Education. Bishop John Sherlock of London approved the use of the program in the schools which conforms to the expecta­ tions, desires and sense of faith of parents, priests and teachers. Bishop Sherlock in his letter to the board said the program should be used in conjunction with the Religious Education and Catholic Family Life program so that it will be part of an integrated effort to form followers of Christ, commit- ed to chastity and to the moral choices necessary to live a chaste life. The AIDS Education Committee appointed by the board endorses the program. It included trustees, administrative staff, teachers, and parents. This committee is plann­ ing public meetings with parents before presenting the program to the Grades 7 and 8 students in the school system. Bishop Sherlock stressed that parents must be given a chance to review this program and express their opin­ ions and to be allowed the option of withdrawing their children from the program if they choose to do so. He said the program is a truly Catholic response to the scourage of AIDS and will contribute to the sanctification of the Church and the preservation of the human family. 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