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London diocese Bishop, John Sherlock encouraged parents and education William Eckert, the bishop and chairman of the Catholic
teachers to send their children to a Catholic high School. He was secondary school planning committee John Devlin of Stratford.
speaking in Mitchell. In the photo, front left to right are: director of
Catholic high school offers choice
of values Bishop Sherlock says.
By Stephanie Levesque
It was a pep rally for Catholic educa-
tional leaders in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties.
Over 200 people including teachers,
school board trustees, priests, and parents
from school and church groups gathered in
Mitchell last week to hear London diocese
Bishop John Sherlock say he hopes
Catholic high schools are established in
Huron and Perth.
The bishop started with the history of
Catholic education and ended by quoting
Pope John Paul II from his visit to Canada
last year.
While saying he wasn't criticizing the
public school system, the bishop said there
is no basis of faith in the public schools. ,
"We need . to know the truth about
mankind and unless we know and depend
on God, we' know nothing," he said.
"It's a horrible loss."
"What a Catholic high school does is of
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fer a choice of values, it's not involved in
doctrine, but offers a choice of direction,"
the bishop said.
He reminded those present that their
ancestors had fought for ,Catholic schools
and suffered both economically and social-
ly.
Historically, there have been Catholic
high schools in Huron .and Perth. ' From
1878 to 1963 there was the Lauretta
Academy in Stratford. In 1963 . St.
Michael's was built on.that site and offered
Grades 9 and 10 for a time. In Kinkora,
north of Mitchell, there was a Catholic
high school around 1916. -
In Dublin, the Ursuline sisters ran a high
school from 1915 to 1969. That building.
now houses the Huron -Perth . Roman
..Catholic separate school board offices.
The bishop also . covered provincial
history. Catholic education rights were in-
cluded in the British North American
(BNA) Act in 1867. However, in 1871, when
the first high school act was passed,
Catholic high school education was omit-
ted.
One hundred years later, in. 1971, the
Progressive Conservative government in
Ontario won an election because it
wouldn't extend funding to Catholic high
schools.
"I don't want to be around in 2071,
something bad always happens in '71,"
said the bishop.
At one point when answering questions,
Bishop Sherlock got angry at the sugges-
tion that. by attending Catholic schools,
students would be avoiding the "real
world". Pointing out pornography and
drugsand alcohol, the bishop asked "is
that the real world?"
Director of education. Bill Eckert also
spoke. He presented possible enrolment
figures for a Catholic high school in each of
the two counties. -
In Huron there would, if all Catholic
Grade 9 students in 1986 enrolled, be 130
Grade 9 students. If these students con-
tinue on until Grade 13 and a grade is add-
ed each year, there could be 547 students
by 1990,
Mr. Eckert said 60' per cent 'enrolment
would be more realisticand that would
mean 328 students by 1990.
In Perth, there would be 144 Grade 9
students in September of 1986. By 1990' a
school could have an enrolment of 678. At,
60 per cent enrolment, there would be 407
students in 1990.
"It's a - matter of us, the educational
leaders, educating the local community,"
said Mr. Eckert.
Hope to hold ,budget increase
to six per cent for 1985
The Huron County Board of Education
expects to bring its 1985 budget in at a six
per cent increase or less.
Although no specific information has •
been released, the board's executive com-
mittee says preliminary expenditure
estimates show that six per cent is a
"reasonable current projection". The
board's 1984 budget was $37 million.
The executive committee has considered
a tentative list of capital projects amoun-
ting to slightly more than $550,000 in total.
No date has . been set for the board's
special budget session because up to last
week the board had not received informa-
tion from the ministry of education in-
dicating how much money the Huron
school system will receive from the pro-
vince.
Last year, this information was received
by the second week of January.
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