HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-08-30, Page 6Page b--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 30, 1978
A museumobile which takes you back 500 million years when
Ontario was a sparkling, tropical sea bordered by the bare,
barren rocks of the Canadian Shield came to the Lucknow
Library last 'Wednesday. The travelling exhibit contained
fossils, maps, written and projected information and
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aquariums to help record the span of 150 million years. Tom
Linderoos, the Museumobile interpreter for the Royal Ontario
Museumobile, answered questions regarding ' Ontario's
distant past. He also instructs classes visiting schools in the
museumobile bus during the fall. [Dave Sykes Photo]
Museumobile.......
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The, Capelin may come back to Ottawa. Since the late
1940s temperatures in Ontario have dropped steadily.
Between 1962 and 1970 alone, the mean annual
temperature in Toronto has dropped 2 degrees F. A
sustained average temperature drop of only 12 degrees
F may be all that is needed to bring back an Ice Age. So
enjoy warm Ontario now.
ONTARIO NOW
With such a bleak possibility, it is pleasant to think
back to the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years
ago, when Ontario was a sparkling tropical sea• with
inhabitants._like those of a modern-day Pacific or
Atlantic coral reef. Then, too, there were corals, and
sponges, and worms, and starfish, and snails, and
clams, and crabs, and other animals, whose skeletons
are found today as fossils, as those in a modern coral
reef may be found as fossils, tomortaw.
There is a sister museumobile which is .also
cris-crossing the province with its theme as Man in
Ontario. It deals with the recording of man's existence
in Ontario for 12,000 years.
Information on the museumobiles can be obtained
from Mr. Robert Kirkman, Scheduling Co-ordinator,
Museumobiles, Extension Services, R.O.M., 299
Queen St. W., 4th floor, Toronto, Or}t. MSV 1Z9.
The farm of Tony and Fran McQuall was open to a preview
of the Energy Alternatives Tour on Friday. A windmill to
pump water supplies the McQuall home with water. It was
raised this stammer with the help of friends. The barn on
the TVIcQuailfarm is, supplied by * gravity»fed system.
Board removes
"Diviners"
from school list
BY JEFF SEDDON
The Huron County Board of Education has finally
become involved in, a firey issue surrounding three
English Literature books being used in the five county
high schools and decided August 21 to ban one of
the three books from use in Huron county classrooms:
The issue surrounding the three books -- Of Mice
and Men by John Steinbec15, Catcher in the Rye by J.
D. 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 request 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 improper 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
people, 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.
SILLY PRACTICE
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 and no you can't
teach this."
The Colborne trustee pointed out that many trustees
have been away from the classroom atmosphere 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 text-
books.
Board chairman John Elliott told the board that the
books in question were slated for use in the classrooms
this year. He said they would be used in Grade 13
-optional English courses in Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton and South Huron Secondary School in
Exeter. Elliott explained 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 realized students not wishing to
study any of the books in question, or any othertex-
tbook 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 those students to be taught..from another text
on the board's approved list.
Henderson said department heads in *the schools
prepare examinations on books the majority of the'
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.
TEACHERS' CONCERNS
Dorothy Wallace reminded the board of the con-
cerns 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 representative Canadian literature.
"We're not taking the books away from the students
and teachers. We're just taking them out of the
system," said Henderson."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
contracts 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 it is much wiser to have
a professional teaching the book and putting it in its
proper perspective than to have the students "reading
them in bed at night and taking their own meaning."
" Henderson asked board chairman John Elliott to
Donald s. John Alexander,
Harry Hayter, Donald M
take a recorded vote on the book
McDonald, R. K. Peck, Charles