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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-10-02, Page 174, 0 Drop in educationalstandards feared by teachers' federation Leaders of the 3 3,.00 0 -member Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation warned in Toronto recently that- educational standards may plummet in Ontario r if school boards are forced indiscriminately to slash their 1970 budgets. The warning was ,issued on the heels of statements by Premier John Robarts, Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton • and Education Minister William G. Davis that school boards must start spending more responsibly. 0 SSTF President Ward McAdam said his organization has been urging a public discussion of educational priorities since last winter — but without much reaction • from 'parents or administrators. "Until very recently," he said, - "there has seemed- to be Very little long-range planning. Therefore, school boards -have felt free to launch programs that were predictably expensive." Teachers have been more aware of the implications than most, said Mr. McAdam, because school boards 'which have plunged into building programs • or other expensive projects have too frequently. used the human element of their system as the -whipping boy, thereby increasing the size of classes or reducing the size of their staffs. Thea statements by govemment leaders only make • more timely OSSTF's warning that it is time • to look at priorities, he added. An OSSTF research report a which -took several months' to prepare and which has just been released pinpoints lack of planning as probably the most serious gap in the Ontario school system. "In many ways," it says, "the Department' of Education seems almost to have withdrawn from the field." "The department, hesitant to issue even guidelines and perhaps uncertain what to suggest for programs, is no doubt afraid of recreating the syndrome of a few years ago when boards, administrators and teachers all looked to it for the distilled wisdom of education. "Divisidnal Divisidnal boards and administrators; in many areas, seem content to let the vacuum remain and merely to administer the schools. Other divisions, however, are attempting to look into the future and develop their programs for this future." Mr: McAdam, a North York classroom teacher, dismissed the suggestion by some trustees that instructional salaries were responsible for high spending. The percentage of salary costs in overall budget increases was less than five percent last spring, he said. The OSSTF president said his organization also found,it rather inconsistent that the Department of Education was sponsoring' teacher conferences on ways of implementing the Hall -Dennis ,Report Oct. 8 while encouraging school boards not to finance innovations. "The man -on -the -street remains, convinced that his childreh can expect more flexible and creative education," said Mr, McAdam, "but all the signs 6oint the other way. 'Therefore, we . believe the time has come for every parent ▪ to decide whether or not he wants his child to go to school in a flexible situation or in more crowded situations. The Queen's Park statements only make that decision more important." -4 C�nestog� governors CFB Clinton facilities The board of governors of Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology toured CFI3 Clinton and held its September meeting on the base r Monday. Conestoga, whose campus is in Kitchener, is one of 20 new community colleges in Ontario and serves. the counties of Huron, Perth, Waterloo and. Wellington. H. B. Such of Goderich and Seaforth Mayor, Frank Sills, Huron's representatives on the college board, arranged Monday's meeting of the governors after county officials asked the school to consider establishing a satellite campus at CFB Clinton when the armed forces leave in 1971. This week's visit to the base followed by,. only 10 days a similar inspection by Ontario Education Minister William Davis, Provincial Treasurer Charles S. MacNaughton, a deputy managing director of the ,Ontario Development Corporation and a number off' county and local officials. Eight of the 12 appointed Huron Board of Education adopts policy for insurance Huron County Board of Education at its - last meeting, adopted its policy covering accident insurance for school pupils. It decided •that 'its motion of a previous meeting be amended to read "that insurance agents and/or companies who sold e pupil accident insurance to school pupils or school boards in Huron County for the 1968-69 school year be authorized to ;do so again in the same schools for the 1969-70 school year on the basis that the insurance is voluntary and that Huron • County Board of Education will no.t,_pay any -part of the premium involved." D. J. Cochrane, director of education, -said that contrary to what he was led to believe, insurance agents and companies d other than those represented by Huron County Insurance Agents' Association, sold accident insurance to pupils and school boards in Huron County last' year. The board's insurance adviser had suggested that for this year only, the same agents and/or companies be allowed to sell insurance to pupils in the schools they visited last year. The board gave power to act in the awarding of the group term life insurance contract and the general insurance contract, to the special committee on insurance headed by Clarence McDonald, Exeter. Mr. McDonald stressed that all the members of the board are free to attend meetings of the committee with power to vote. They will be so notified. The board a"pproved a list of text books not listed on Circular 14 from the department of education for use in that elementary and secondary schools under the jurisdiction of Huron County Board of Education for the school year 1969-70. John Henderson, RR 5, Seaforth, asked if the Board could eliminate any bbok it did not desire to have in its possession. ' D. J. Cochrane, director of education, stated that the board possessed' this authority if it decided to eliminate any book it did not approve. . "Let's 'not make fools of ourselves like a certain mayor of Toronto did at one time," commented Mrs. J, 'W. Wallace,_ Goderich. The books in question, it was pointed out, were not on the department -approved list and were in use for•the first time in the -secondary -schools -of -'Huron County. tour Conestoga governors and four members of the administrative staff arrived at 3 p.m. Monday, were given a briefing by Col. E. W. Ryan, base commander, and spent two hours touring the 241 -acre training base. Also present was Stanley Norton of Toronto, a Dept. of Education representative who attends the board meetings regularly. The evening business session was preceded by dinner at the Officers' Mess. Colonel Ryan's remarks revealed that the bulk of the Radar and Communications School staff and some supporting trades personnel will move to Kingston next. April. Current plans call for the School of Instructional Technique and the yet -to -be -opened Warrant Officers School to remain until April or May of 1971, said the base commander. No one has disclosed where the two latter groups will be relocated. From May.through August of 1971, the base' will house only a "rear party" of about 100 men, Colonel Ryan said, and their task will be to "tidy up, starting at the back and working toward they gate which they will leave and lock on Sept. 1. - Besides Mr. Sills and Mr. Such, Conestoga board members at CFB Clinton were: Albert H. Klinkhammer of Galt, chairman; E. L. Holmes, dean of engineering at the University of Waterloo; Kenneth R, Fisk, Harreiston reeve; Richard Gingrich of Kitchener, Bud Blowes of Mitchell; Mrs. Carol - Hudgins of arol•Hudgins-of Waterloo and Aubrey Hagar of Guelph who is resigning - to accept an Oct. 1 appointment as the college's director of innovative and continuing education. - Administrators included J. W. Church, president; Alec Brown; dean of faculty; Jack Williams, secretary -treasurer and Miss Barbara Hartleib, the president's secretary. Kindo arten for se ►arate school udents Kindergarten classes for separate school students in Huron and Perth will be provided by next September. At the regular meeting of the Huron -Perth Separate School Board, held in Seaforth on. Monday, John Vintar, superintendent of education for the board, was asked to look into the availability, of existing facilities and report back to the board. Mr. Vintar will bring in a report within four months listing the accommodations available in schools in municipalities under the board's control. In other business, the board approved a debenture issue of $44,000• to cover cost of a three-room addition last year to Our Lady of ; Mount Carmel school at Dashwood. The addition involved a principal's office, teachers' lounge and a combined library -classroom. • The bdard also approved a swap of facilities between the Stratford YMCA and St. Michael's Separate School' there provided it doesn't interfere with school activities. The YMCA wants to use the .school for gym classes and has offered the use of its swimming pool in return. A staff dinner is scheduled for tonight at the Royal Canadian Legion hall at Clinton for school board staff. The board decided to turn over the deed to an unused convent near St. Patrick's Separate School at Kinkora to the diocese of London. The board's - building committee was given authority to accept the "most attractive" tenders submitted to provide 11 schools with fuel oil this winter and gasoline for four board -owned school buses. SAVE DOLLARS ON OUR SPECIALS ON ELECiROHpME HUMIDIFIERS AND EUREKA VACUUMS AT Hutchinson Radio — TV — Appliances 308 Huron Rd.. _ --,-,524=7831. Introducing Total HomeComf�i't Texaco Style. Texaco Deluxe Forced Warm Air Furnace. Designed to ensure the complete combustion of every drop of oil. And because it's oil, you get maximum heat at minimum cost. 'Available on easy-ferms. 4 ,} Texaco Replacement Oil Burner. 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