HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-09-21, Page 35Times -Advocate, September 21, 1988
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Latest news from the Huron County Board of Education
Trustees on the Huron County
Board of Education. have been ad-
vised of. their' redistribution and the
accommodation of iwu additional
trustees to .bring their number to
1.6, in what Director of Education
Bob Allan called "one of the most
Significant political changes that
could happen to the board."
The clerks of the three highest
populated municipalities in Huron
County, namely the towns.of Godc-
rich and Exeter and thc Township of
Stephen, formed a committee -in
early August to discuss trustee dis-
tribution for the HCBE. Bill 125,
which was passed in June, provided
for trustees across Ontario to be dis-
tributed according to population
rather than on the basis of property
tax assessment. This necessitated
thc redistribution, and two trustees
were added to the local board to rc-
ducethe workload on existing trus-
tees through a- board decision in
June.
The implications of the.distribu-
tion arc largely political, as most of
the trustees will be running in dif-
ferent electoral districts in the up-
coming municipal elections in No-
vember. The current trustees could
also be forccd,to run against each
oilier if their home addresses are
within the same changed electoral
boundaries.
Some of the other political:impli-
cations arc: the former division of .
Seaforth,. Hullett,.and McKillop
which was repro rented by Graeme
Craig and John Jewitt, is now di-
vided into two separate divisions in-
cluding Blyth, Blyth and Hullett,
and Seaford) and .McKillop --each
with one trustee.
- Another change of note is that the
Town of Goderich has a population
that warrants two trustees. Prior to
• the redistribution there was one
trustee for the Town of Goderich,
anda second representing Colborne
and Goderich.
OPSTA additional funding
The Ontario Public School Trus-
tees' Association requested roughly.
-$5,000 from the HCBE for a cam-
paign to lobby the- provincial gov=.
ernmcnt, but the board agreed to ta-
ble the request pending further
information.
The OPSTA claims the money is
needed to fund a campaign 10 pro-
tect the right of school boards .to
tax comrincrcial and industrial as-
sessment. This right is currently
being challenged by the Ontario.
Government, or more specifically,
. the Macdonald commission. The
contribution requested of school
boards is 1/100 of one percent of
the board's overall budget - about
$4,800 for the HCBE.
Summer school 1988
"Summer school could be
thought of as easy marks for dumb
kids by teachers from the 6pttom of
the barrel."
Frank MacDonald, principal of.
thesummer school, says these.
words reflect the type of negative
attitude he sees in people who don't
think summer school is a viable
way for students to. -make up a
.:year's failure. They ask how a per-.
son who fails a year can make up
his grades in three weeks. Mr. Mac-,
-Donald and Janice Buist, who was a
program 'supervisor at summer
school this year, attended before the
board to tell how.
Mr. MacDonald says the students
who come back for more schooling
during the summer have all failed -
but they have come to grips with
their failure and decided to do some -
Ailing about it. He,cails them mo-
tived kids, .and this motivation
combined with a concentrated three
'hours of study per day, plus home-
Work, gives them what they need to
get' their credits. '
The delegation remarked the staff
at summer school is generally a
good mix of new teachers as well as
experienced ones who come back
year -after year. Generally, he says
summer school. attracts an enthu-
siastic staff who enjoy the low
teacher -pupil ratios in their summer
classes. •
'The bottom line,"- Mr. MacDo-
HENSALL
nald says, :Is that it's ' ell worth
. e:oing,"
-re were a total of 467 students
who attended sumfiier school in
1988, which was a dcclinc of 18
percent over the previous year. No
reason for. this can be given other
than the guess that the many sum-
mer jobs available to students this
summer had an influence. Of the
167 students who attended summer
school all but OsevenPSTAwere success-•
ful.
Chartering meet II,
A special meeting of members of
the Nonhcrn Ontario School Trus-
tees Association, the Ontario Pub-
lic School Trustee's Association and
the Association of Large School
Boards Ontario will be held on
September 2.1 in Toronto. The pur-
poses of the meeting are to pass a
resolution authorizing the merger of
the operations of the three boards,
and to consider the resolutions of
the Board of Directors of the OP-.
STA and the Executive -Committee
of the ALSBO authorizing their
amalgamation pursuant to the Cor-
porations Act.
- Student award. winners
David Josephson of South Huron
District High School was the win-
nor of [he "Royal Canadian Gcogra-.
phy Society Award" presented by
thc Canadian Geographic Magazine.'
He also received Sl -,000 and a three.
year subscription to the magazine..
David was one of 25.winncrs from .
-across Canada.
Deanna Brindley of Gbdcrich Dis-.
trict Collegiate Institute was -the
first place winner in . a shorthand
contest sponsored by the Ontiirici
• Business Educators Association.
Deanna placed first in Huron
County with a mark of 91.8 per-
cent, and placed first in the Provin-
cial Business Educators Shorthand
Contest. - -
• Said Osman of South Huron Dis-
trict High School is.the winner of
• the Chem 13 News Exam Award
• from Waterloo with a 96 percent
average. Said was olio of 6,000
contestants from Canada, the USA
and Great Britain.
Day care ., in schools
The HCBE received correspon-
dence from the Toronto Board of •
Education stating •that hoard had
adopted a resolution suing: •
"That the Ministry of Communi-
ty and Social Services be requested
to provide financial assistance turd a
financial planning service to public
non-prolit Day Care Boards located
.in schools and operated by 'boards
of education in the province."
No action was taken by the local
. board on this issue, but Director of
Education • Bob Allan commented
• that Day Care in schools would he -
a good thing and this is a good. •
.cause, for the Toronto hoard to
champion.
To review subjects
DUBLIN - The Huron -Perth Ro-
man Catholic separate school hoard
has voted 10-1 in favor of making
application to the ministry oG_cdu-
cation-for a board review of Grade 6
reading and mathematics during the
1988-89 year. The estimated cost of
participation is -S5,0(X).- .
the ministry of education will be
carrying out reviews of the Grade 6
subjects by a random selection of
100 -English speaking schools and
100 French speaking schools across:
• Ontario to provide a province=wide
sampling of how schools arc meet-
ing education objectives.
The 1luron-Perth board did .not
have any of itsschoots selected for
the random sampling but want to
-participate in the review "for a more
extensive sampling in.our own sys-
-tern," said director of education Bill
Eckert.
He actdcd-that the -review will give
the t�i��ernnient a reacting of how•
well Huron -Perth is (10in. in 0.7-
-part. of the province.-
. • Basically, h'1r. Eckert explained to
trustees, the review is are et:Ai: mon
of how well the ministry is• nuet-
ing.ohjectives at the Grade six level_
andhow well we're -meeting the ob-
jectives in our own•systent.
Trustee. Ron Marcy, the only
tnislee opposed to the review, asked
what would happen should the tau-
•ron-Perth board tail to meet the ob-
jectives, •
Mr. Eckert said it would then be
incuinbent upon the hoard to make
improvements in those -areas. -
"We have given long and.scrious.
attention to these two areas (math
and reading) and 1 anticipate an A or
perhaps an A -plus," Nir. Eckert pre
dicted.
He added that if the hoard didn't do
well -that would he alright too for it
would provide direction on what
necdcd to be improved.
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• Brand on his horse from rutabaga pieces and any'other materials neces-
.sary. All elementary school children are eligible,
Fair crops results
EXETER - Director Roy Pepper
has announced further results' in The
field crop competitions for the 1988.
Exeter Fall Fair.
WHITE BEANS - Alan Powe 92,
Wayne Hern 92, Rene VanBru-
wacnc 90, John' Thomson 89, Peter
Tuckey 85, Cliff Hicks 81, Murray
,Dawson 80, Bob Down 78, Lorne
Passmore 77, Brucc Shapton 76,
Allan Rundle 76, Tom Tricbncr 75,
Ray Cann 69, Gordon Hcrn 67.
SOYBEANS -• Cliff Flicks 91,
Lorne Passmore 91, Bob Down 89,
Gerald Dearing 87, Peter Tuckey
87, Gordon Jones 86, Murray Daw-
son 86, Alan dein 84, Eric Devle-
minck 83, Rom Hem_ 82, Allan_..
Rundle t; I, Ken Oke 80, Jim Cor-
nish 79, Ray Cann 78.
GRAIN CORN - Tom Tricbncr
•
93, Peter Tuckey 92, Edwin Miller
91 Bob Down 91, Bruce 'Shapton
90, Ken Oke 89, •Paul Passmore
86, Alan Hern 82, Earl French 82,
Gordon Hern 81, Wayne Hcrn .81,
Cliff Hicks 80, Allan Rundle 74;
Gerald Dearing 70.
ENSILAGE CORN - Tom'Tricb-
ner 93, Paul Passmore 92, Peter
Tuckey 91, Edwin Miller 91, Bruce
Shapton 88, Alan Hern- 87, Bob
Down 86, Hcrn Farms 81, Tom
Herr 78, Gordon Jones 77, Earl
French 75, Cliff Hicks 73, Allan
Rundle 68.
Each competitor must bring. his
exhibit to thc fair. An excellent ex-
-fiiibif-at the fair could bring up thc
final point total and make it more
difficult for the judges.
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