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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2001. PAGE 23.
Failed, key word at Avon Maitland meeting
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
An evening of oral presentations
last Tuesday, Oct. 9, by representa-
tives of four regional groups study-
ing potential solutions to the Avon
Maitland District School Board's
student accommodation woes, was
marked by several key exchanges
involving trustees, by considerable
discussion of moving Grades 7 and 8
students into secondary school set-
tings, and by the rather emphatic
utterance of the word "FAILED" to
keep everyone on their toes.
At the board's regular meeting,
trustees and staff sat through presen-
tations from the tour Community
Accommodation Study Committees
(CASCs), which were put together
last May by the board in an effort to
gather information from the commu-
nities served by its schools.
It was South Study Area represen-
tative Peter Bush who stirred every-
one to attention by shouting out the
final word of one sentence. Bush, by
far the most theatrical of the speak-
ers, was stating that a school system
has "failed" if all its schools are the
same, because that means each
school isn't rooted in the distinct
community in which it stands.
"Huron County is not Perth
County. They are different. That's
not to say one is better than the other,
but they are different," Bush said. "It
is, in fact, the differences that make
a school strong."
Bush spoke on behalf of the entire
South Study Area CASC, despite the
fact the written submission from the
group presented anything but a unit-
ed front.
The Mitchell-area resident
addressed this in his presentation,
explaining how the group had split
into three separate groups - defined
by the area's three high schools -
following its second meeting in
June. But he suggested the process
led to one significant point of con-
sensus among the. groups: that the
solution to the board's problems will
have to vary from community to
community.
"The whole gist of this report is
that (community) is culturally-
defined," Bush said, when answer-
ing a trustee's question about his def-
inition of community. "Solutions
will be based on communities. There
will be differences between commu- -
nities. Not all the schools'will look
the same because they don't look the -
same now."
Shelley Kaastra, presenting for the
West-Central CASC, expressed sim-
ilar sentiments when asked about her
group's recommendation to move
Grade 7 and 8 students from
Seaforth Public School into Seaforth
District High School. Such a solu-
tion would both relieve overcrowd-
ing at the elementary school and
decrease the number of vacant stu-
dent spaces in the secondary school.
Much consideration was given by
all speakers to the fact parents in
many communities adamantly
oppose such realignment. The
Stratford and North CASCs came
down firmly opposed to the notion,
while a so-called "minority report"
from representatives of Stratford
Central Secondary School expressed
support for the idea. But Kaastra
noted that, in the West-Central case,
such realignment was a made-in-
Seaforth solution that wouldn't nec-
essarily be recommended elsewhere.
"We were looking at each commu-
nity solving their own problems with
the cohort year (when two groups of
students graduate from high school
at once, due to the discontinuation of
the five-year high school program)
and the empty spaces in high
schools," Kaastra explained.
A community-by-community
focus was definitely not.the sugges-
tion of the North CASC report.
Though presenter Bob Pike stressed
the North CASC -didn't advocate
applying the exact same solutions
across the board, he did admit that
the group had approached its study
from a board-wide perspective.
"The thinking behind that was that
you do it in the context of the big
picture," he explained. "It didn't
mean you did the same thing every-
where; it meant that you did it with
the big plan in mind."
Indeed, one of the group's recom-
mendations is to close an unspeci-
fied number of secondary schools
and consolidate the students into the
larger existing schools. Under ques-
tioning from Central Huron trustee
Charles Smith, Pike stated that the
committee didn't recommend the
closure of either of the high schools
within its own study area. Smith
asked which of the board's other
high schools the group considered
should be closed, but Pike said that
question wasn't considered.
- "You have the ability to make your
own decisions. We're not here to tell
you how to make decisions," Pike
told Smith.
The exchange was part of a longer
discussion between Smith and Pike,
in which Smith challenged the North
Study Area presenter to justify the
group's usage of so-called "bench-
marks," setting the minimum num-
ber of students required in a school
for it to operate cost-effectively. In
response to questioning from the
trustee, Pike stated the group had
taken those benchmarks from the
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