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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-01-20, Page 9Brussels ,mane urgesboard to continue fight. against JK Junior Kindergarten (JK) is an unnecessary, money -wasting project being shoved down taxpayers' throats by a "slimey, non -caring, non -listening government in Toronto," says one area resident. And if trustees of the Huron County Board of Education (HCBE) cannot "stand fast" in opposing JK, they should resign, he added. "I sense your resolve on this beginning to break down," Brussels resident Allan Dettweiler told trustees at the Jan. 11 board meeting. ',:1'm hearing things like 'the ministry's going to force us to implement JK, and we may not get start-up money if we don't cooperate now,or 'the ministry may cut back other grants if we don't implement JK.', "But I believe many of you, as well as I and other taxpayers, se,e JK as nothing more than a glorified day-care system." . The provincial ;gvernment's insistence that all m . icipalities have JK in .place by 94 is "an indication that, once again, the majority of taxpayers are being ignored and shafted," Dettweiler said. JK has been a controversial.issue in Huron County for more than two years, since . it was . initially mandated by the previous Liberal provincial government. While it is mandatory for boards to provide =JKfrit'irs"iio.Cmandatory for children to attend. JK is aimed at three- and four -year-olds. • • In December,'Ontario ,Minister..of. Education Tony Silipo offered the HCBE a grant •of just under $500,000, to be. used only`fbr.JK- related projects. The board has .not yet decided whether to accept the grant,, which was part of a $36.5 million package aimed at schools across the province. • "SEND GRANT BACK" ' The grant was just a move to "smooth things over," Dettweiler said. "I urge you to send it back. Or; if you, haven't received it yet, tell the ministry you don't want funds . with JK strings attached:" The board should also invite Silipo tocome to Huron and meet taxpayers face to face about the matter, added Dettweiler: • As far as cutbacks .in other, unrelated ,, grants are concerned, Dettweiler said he is trying to find out whether . Silipo "plans to blackmail boards into implementing JK." . ` • So far he has been promised a return phone call on four different occasions, but has never received one yet, he told the board. In an interview during a break in the meeting, Dettweiler said JK is not an issue that hits home with him because his youngest child is now in kindergarten. "But I may as well be frank," he. said. "I intend to be the Libertarian federal candidate in the next federal election. Our partyis concerned that the provincial and federal governments are spending our Money on all kinds of projects 'we can't afford." • JK is probably "one of the biggest wastes" currently underway by a "fiscally irresponsible government," said Dettweiler. •The fact that it was initiated by the previous Liberal- provincial government and is being continued under the current NDP government also.. suggests "it's the bureaucracy that just keeps things going no matter who's • 'elected," added Dettweiler. He also urged trustees, and the general public, to organize a `phone-in' to Silipo to let him know how strong public,opposition to JK is - or to complain about"any other matter the,,government is trying to ram down our throats." The toll-free number for Silipo is 1-800-268-3747. ro LCPS' library is just like .a The library is a beehive of activ- ity this month. Everyone • is researching for a speech, getting ideas for the young author's book pr doing individual research pro- jects. Grade 1 and .Graded plan to use their finger painting to make some illustrations for their' books. Everyone in Kindergarten had a very happy holiday and came back ready to learn. We have been busy talking about snow and enjoying playing in the snow, at last. We have made another Big Book to share with our family. January birthdays are Brian and Cory. Just think in 1993 we will all turn six. Everyone in Grade 1 is working hard at spellingthe missidg letters in our daily News pages. What good readers we are now that we are practicing a 1oi! In our weather unit we will be doing snow and ice experiments. Samantha and Joey have been the "Special Me's" in January. Happy Birthday to Mary Lou -our first seven-year-old. Mrs. M.L. is glad to be back and enjoying her super new friends. It's fun getting to know each other better. Ms. Shepherd is teaching us place' value in. math and, great experiments about snow, Mrs. MI: is doing language activities on snow. We are experiencing lots of fun, excitement and learning. • We tried making butter in a food processor and with electric beaters. It worked. The electric beaters were faster. We are thinking of other butter experiments to do. David deBoer's dad came and talked to us about dairy farming. We're'off to a running start in Grade 2 in 1993. Now that we are back at school our new topic in Language Arts and Environmental Studies for. the Grade 2/3 class is winter birds. To help out with this study we are making a trip to the Nature Centre for a presentation called "Fine Feathered Friends." In math we have been doing many activities with solid shapes such as the tri- angular prism and the rectangular prism. In the Grade 3/4 class we are busy learning. aboat the land down under -Australia. In math we are working hard to know our multipli- cation facts. The Legion speaking Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, January 20, 1993 - Page 9 beehive; find out .why Ls INSIDER contest wilt begin soon, So we are busy writing bur speeches! "Good - day mate! The Grade 4/5 class is working on their speeches. We have all chosen our own speech topic. The birthday of this month is Jaime Pritchard on January 29. Happy birthday JaMne! On Friday we are having Troll Day. Each person in the class is allowed to bring one, two or three trolls! Our bulbs have really been growing fast. Our Ama- ryllis is 58 cm. Miss Scott bought the class a new Amaryllis that will bloom. for sure because• our other one might not bloom. We have also planted Hyacinth bulbs in water.' We have been experimenting• with batteries and bulbs for Environ- mental Studies. (written by Laura Sande & Paula Taylor). 1993 will present interesting challenges for Grade 5/6. Some of the projects are Novel Studies, Tem mom INTERNATIONAL PLUMBING SALE., Speeches and the fmial section of . the Self Discovery books entitled, Family Treasures. The extra curricular activities we are looking forward. to in January are the ski trip to Talisman and. the choir excursion„4o • Port Elgin. «3Several • students have been invited to join the Senior Band and look forward to participating in this club. We welcome back Jessica Steffler and Andrew Grist. They both enjoyed their family vacation to Florida. The Grade 7 and 8 students are working on their speeches for the Legion public speaking contest. The Grade 8's have nearly finished their history unit on Confederation and will be having a test at the end of• January. Most of the class is look- ing forward to the ski trip on Jan- uary 22. On Wednesday we welcomed some new band members to the band. There were about twenty in all. 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