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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-04-03, Page 3Unveil 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. 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