HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1997-10-29, Page 4.Help From Yeats
We were led to Regina's.
To witness a death_
The Minister said it would
be all right
And the,pain would be
sublime. .
But this was no ordinary
death. • , • , •
This: death Was nor a slave
of dine • '
It reached into Mother's
dreams •
As her child stjll grew
inside: •
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It pok"Ths e e re Nvil
hope for you,"
It smiled, "Only will :
I be no
choose the feW.4!
Dear editor: It gloated, "I will pick
what is good for you,"
The pain then came and it
was harsh.
They closed the curtain
and bade light to go.
And pronounced, "Only
darkness shall, on you
shine
Then Silence Silence
:...Suffocating Silence.
We knew that it, was time.
They called out Yeats, t)a,
Vinci, Laurence, Dickens
Elliot, Shakespeare
And all their friends, those
teachers.
They burned Hard Tithes
and put them all into their
places. .
It laughed, "J know exact-
ly what to do."
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Then it happened.Every
child. was to obey as
All the sweat and blood
was disregarded while
The desks and books were
Sacrificed .
And all the flames, all. of.
them, put out.
Those hopes, those fires,
were not needed anymore.
We would get all we want-
ed at the designated min-
istry store. •
Then the new minister
sent us all away
ProClaiming, "Now, you
do only as I say." '
. I wrotethis poem in
response to the current sit-
uation to attempt to deeply
and • forever change
'see 'Dispassionate' pg. 8
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• • , 70 years ago. •
••• Oct.. 27, '1927.
ew proprietor at the, eight
House -Jack Cain, '• grandson,
of Mr. T.F. Cain; recently took
over the business it The Cain House,
Lucknow.• • .
The new proprietor is Puttingnew
life into the business. He had adopted
"service" ' as his •motto, • and aims to
give the travelling public, is well as
local patrons, first class accommoda-
tion in every way. ••• . •
Mr.' Cain, Jr.,' has, been connected
With hotel business all his life and
. With his, affable manner andexperi-
ence should measure up 'to the
requirements of a good modern hotel
manager:
For the . past 10 years,f Jack has
been in Toledo and London. •
And from an advertisement in that
week's paper we found the following:
"The' Cain. House - another' chicken
dinner,Sunday, Oct, 30, - just as good
as last week - only 50 cents,'
5,0 years ago
Oct. 30, 1947 '
lifers milk bottle money A
milk bottle, thief was busy in
town during the early hours of
Sunday •morning and netted some $6
for • his, efforts, , it is estimated. The
haul was increased considerably by
$2 bill which had. been putin a bottle
for the purchase of tickets.
The night, prowler covered a good
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deal of the • village in his"'escapade.
Bottles • with • tickets remained
untouched, but bottles that contained
• moneygenerally, disappeared from
doorsteps and were later found tossed
away on lawns or gardens.
" • , It is the first 'Serious ..milk bottle
raid that Fairview Dairy has' exPeri-
eneed. . • • ' •
Apple Day 7 The Scouts apple day
netted. the group $65 which will be
used towards buying a.big bell tent.
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25 years ago
• Nov. 1, 1972
ant 1554 tons to aid project
'Community minded resi-
dents of the area continue to
support the swinamingpool project in
various ways ,
• Ab Murray of C and M Transport
has donated Ale' services of his trucks
and ',livers to haul 4554' tones ' of
. 'gravel fill for the swimming pool pro-
ject at absolutely 110 .charge. The fill
represents about 50 loads. • ,
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Gross 121,00(l - 453 head of
cattle sold at the Lucknow
Community Sale stocker cat-
tle sale on Monday grossed $11,00,
the highest ever at the Lucknow sale.
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Let's support the teachersTeacher writes poem
Deneditor:' •
I do hope that naoseof us v‘fill 'supPort
our teachers in this unhappy strike, h0W-
ever long it continues,. Those of us who
have volunteered in our schools over the
years have. witnessed .first-hand the dete-
rioration of teaching, conditions ,within
these schools.
Even the .most. intelligent,
enthusiastic and capable
teachers .cannot be expected
to overcome the budget cut§
-resulting teachingmaterial, .
•shortages, split classes, larger •
class sizes, lack of teaching assistants,
lack of quality research resources, etc.
Neither should these .teachers be.
expected tosomehow miraculously . pick
tip the slack for,increasing societal prob-
lems.
Children who arrive at school upset,
unhealthy, unhappy and with • poor ,
social/learning skills are becoming the,
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norm. Parents aren't -doing their jobs very :
reflecting 'situation'
well and 'yet teachers are soniehoW
expected to crank out nice little scholars -
from dysfunctional classrooms,
have to contend with little war zones, they
must also try to teach classes where_large
numbers of children are new Canadians
and don't have sufficient com-
mand of the English lan-
guage to learn anything for-
mal. This leaves teachers
In larger centres, not only do teachers • B111160 With A Little
scrambling to maintain
Open letter to Helen Johns
classroom peace, teach the
curriculum and help the new children
adjust to Canada and learn English.' The
situation is often untenable for everyone.
kemoving more money from the educa-
tion system can only exacerbate a bad sit-
uation.
t've volunteered in eight different
schools over a 17 year period and
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•see 'Deferioration' page 5
• Dear Ms. Johns:- ' •our children and do the
On behalf of the ' best they can with the few ,
Brookside Public School resources remaining in the
Advisbr,y Council' I am ' system:Rarely do you see .„.
writing to express my dis- a teacher actually taking a
may regarding Bill 160 "break" at recess, there's
and the way it is 'being always a set of papers to• "
handled. This council has be marked ' or a child's
serious concerns about the progress •to be discussed.
, government position. , :Lunch hours are filled with
We have heard over and extra curricular activities:
• over again in the last few • sports, computers, chess,
months that our education ,library, etc. Classrooms
' -system is , no good, our • . are vibrant and excit4ig
' leathers have no interest in places where 'the 'love, of
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our children, ..and that our • teaching is• obvious.
children are learning notli- Parents and volunteers are
ing. This is untrue. , always welcome . and
flap at Brookside, we appreciated.. • '
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have a' group of dedicated'LIt. is unfortunate that
teachers who care about this Tory government is
" trying to justify changes
by smearing those who
work with our children
everyday. The teachers
have an enormous impact
on the atmosphere in the
school and they should be
congratulated for up until
now, riot letting the current' ..
difficulties affect their
'classrooms.. ' '
, Bill , 160 is seriously
flawed in that it gives .too
much power 10 an individ-
ual, that is, the Minister of
Education. Allowing
issues". such as class size,
prep time teacher qualifi-
cations and 'local board
responsibilitiesIo be deter-
' •see page 5 ,
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Teachers, parents duped
by 'unscrupu1ois contractor'
Dear editor: ' • s
. As We start into this teachers! shilce, it
seemi to me that the teachers and the peo-
ple of Ontario are like a home owner who
has been duped by an 'unscrupulous con-
; tractor. The guy showed up at the door
saying he could renovate and improve the
house while saVing the home owner rots
of . money. Well what house couldn't do
• with some improvement and. who doesn't
'want to save some money.. so the hotne-
. owner said "sure go ahead." • •
• And so the unscrupulous contractor set
tO work and it wasn't long before he said,
"Your house is rn terrible shape We have
• to tear it down to fix it And so he brings
in a team of wreckers and they start to tear
the house down and they start selling' the
salvage to their friends. •
At this point the homeowner started to
feel a bit insecure and he went to visit the
healthcare household which had received
similar treatment All' that was left was a
gutted shell with nurses, doctors and
patients 'desperately trying to cover the
. holes where the doors and windows had
been.
So • the education homeowner went
home and said "stop," ,My house could
•use some improvement but it does not .
need to be torn down and I don't want you
selling it to your friends.". •
End of parable.
Let us remember that leaked docu-
ments revealed that this govemmentiwas
planning to create a "crisis" in education .
so that it could carry forward its agenda,
Well they have created their crisis. We
have not • had a mediOcre education sys-
tem. We have a mediocre and dishonest
goyerninent. It is time as parents and as
°see 9Do' page 5,
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