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plans for
separate
high school
The planning committee has told its side
of the story, and now it's time for
ratepayers and parents to make their
views known on the proposed Roman
Catholic separate secondary schools set to
open in Huron and Perth counties in
00, September of 1986.
The Huron Perth Roman Catholic
Separate School Boards (HPRCSS) plann-
ing committee presented its findings and
forecasts to parents at St. Patrick's School
in Dublin Tuesday, March 26 and St.
Marys School, Goderich on Thursday.
The committee has been a work for the
last six months devising programs, tour-
ing the province to examine separate
secondary schools elsewhere, and plann-
ing staff .arrangements .for the proposed
schools. Huron and Perth Counties are the
only areas in Ontario where separate
.secondary education is not available.
• The, separate school board will be sen-
ding a survey out to ratepayers and
parents in both Perth and Huron counties
April 4.
The survey will open' with three
paragraphs of information on the planning
committee's work so far, and ask
respondents 11 questions. The questions
are aimed at finding out if respondents are
• ratepayers, if they have children in school,
what transportation they expect for their
children if the proposed school is launched,
and whether they are willing to sit on an
advisory committee.
"It's a fair range of questions," said
Separate School Board Superintendent of
Education John MacCauley. "We are giv-
ing people an opportunity to voice their
concerns and comments."
The Separate School i3oard expects the
survey to be completed by April 20. The
findings will form part of the planning
committee's recommendations to the
separate school board. .
Ratepayers and parents had their own
questions for planning committee
members at, the Dublin meeting: Mr. Mc-
Cauley said the .subjects which raised the
most curiosity' were those 'of
transportation, financing for the school
and curriculum.
While the planning Committee has work-
ed out the curriculum in some detail, the
issues of finance and transportation are
less certain.
Mr. McCauley said that after looking at
a number of separate secondary schools in
the, province, the planning committee had
decided that the school will place par-
ticular importance on- arts (music,
theatre, fine art) and athletics. •
Joan Cronin, a member of the planning
committee, outlined the religious cur-
riculum. The program is to cover aspects
of the Bible, ethics based u.. -.'.igic.,, a
teaching and other ways that religion can
be applied in the student's daily life. The
proposed program is based on religious
curriculum currently being used • in -
separate secondary schools elsewhere in
the province.
The area of finance cannot be determin-
ed with much accuracy, but Mr. McCauley
said the brunt of the cost is covered by
secondary school grants from the provin-
cial government. Even after the grants
have been paid, there is still an
outstanding cost of about $300 per student
per year.
Mr. McCauley said he did not expect that
figure to change substantially between
now and September 1986.
"But it's a new experience for us," he
said of planning school costs, "we just
don't know."
The separate school board plans to house
its separate secondary school in unused
portions of Huron Centi+tal Secondary
School in Clinton. Mr. McCauley said this
"school -within -a -school" approach had
been used iti western Canada, and that it
had worked well there.
Students would be phased into the facili-
ty slowly. The first year, the new school
L _ _won1_d contain,.on1y grade nine ,students
and add one grade each year until the
school had five grades, nine to 13.
Mr. McCauley said some renovation will
be_ needed_ before_ th.e_ school__in_ CIinto n_
could open, and that the unknown cost of
that renovation is making it difficult to
project costs.
The facility that_ would serve Roman
Catholic secondary school students in
Perth County is St. Michael's School in
Stratford, a Romanatholic institution
that had to close in th late 1960s. Mr. Mc-
Cauley said the Stratf rd facility was "ful-
ly equipped, ready to go." •
Both schools would require special start-
up grants from the provincial government.
By the middle of May, Mr. McCauley
said, the planning committee will have
completed its work, which it will submit to
HPRCSS. After that, the proposal goes to
the Huron and Perth Boards of Educations..
who will draft an impact report on the ef-
fects of a separate secondary school in this
area.
Both the planning committee's report
and the impact statement will then go to
the Ontario government's Planning and
Implementation Commission. If the plan
gets provincial approval, Mr. McCauley
said, the Separate School Board can begin -
to work on opening its school by September
1986.
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