HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-06-04, Page 15Education
Program will
prepare
Grade 12
students dor
employment
An experimental program in cooperative
education introduced as a pilot project at
South Huron District High School in Exeter
during the current school year has received
federal and provincial funding to expand in-
to all five regular secondary schools in
Huron County by 1989.
Bob McCall, superintendent of operations
for the Huron County board of education,
reports that the federal ministry of employ-
ment and immigration will spend $193,000
spread overthe next four years on the pro-
gram, and the provincial government Will
contribute almost $40,000 in the first year
through its co-operative education and
transition -to -employment incentive fund.
Future contributions from Ontario will be
contingent on satisfactory interim and an-
nual reports from the Huron board.
The grants are the result of months of
work by McCall and SHDHS assistant
technical director Jim Gladding (who
moves up to director in September) in
preparing detailed applications for
available funding. The provincial proposal
was among 102 submitted by boards across
Ontario.
McCall, who had been involved in co-op
GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1986—PAGE 15
education in Wellington county, credits the
initial spadework and subsequent assess-
ment of the strengths and weaknesses of the
Exeter program obtained from SHDHS
guidance head Rick Graham, as well as ac-
cess to other boards with similar programs,
for providing the basis for the successful
grant applications.
The Exeter school will offer the program
again for the 1986-87 term, and co-op educa-
tion will be introduced at Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton in September.
Initial enrolment in each school will be 30
students selected From the basic, general
advanced grade 12 classes. Emphasis will
be on employment preparation for those
students who do not plan further education
and on specialized training for those who
will continue with post -secondary studies.
Graham will be in charge of the Exeter
program, and guidance teacher Linda,
McKenzie will oversee the one in Clinton.
Co-op programs will be established at
F.E.' Madill Secondary School in Wingham,
Goderich District Collegiate Institute and
Seaforth District High School in the follow-
ing two years.
Over the next four years 420 students will
each have three eight-week work
placements, spending alternate days on the
job and in the classroom. Students will get
invaluable experience prior to applying for
their first full-time jobs, be exposed to , a
variety of career choices, and discover what
employers require in dress, attitude and
work habits.
Those completing the program will earn
three academic credits, two work-related
and one for in -school studies.
Prospective employers are cooperating
enthusiastically. (Only 40 percent of poten-
tial employers were used in the Work Week
and World of Work programs at county,
schools.) Eighty-five placements. are being
offered in the co-op program in the Exeter
area alone. The range spans municipal of-
fices, hospitals, banks, insurance offices,
bottling plants, construction companies,
automobile ' dealerships and garages,
machine shops, retail shops and service oc-
cupations. The response in the Clinton area
has also been "tremendous" according to
McCall.
By implementing the co-op program, the
Huron board will be carrying out - its
philosophy of encouraging the development
of each individual to his or her maximum
a�aucaal.-, .,vc:ial and emotional growth
potential, thus enabling each to function as a
competent, contributing and responsible
member of society.
Last, but by no means least. the
beleagured taxpayer will benefit, too. The
federal funds will be used for salaries of
teacher/monitors and a program co-
ordinator, fringe benefits, travel for
monitoring, conferences, long distance
phoning and consumable supplies.
The provincial money will pay the salary
of one resource person, and a futher $9,600
will be used for purposes such as buying a
safety helmet and steel -toed boots that may
be required on a job, or any other needs that
might other wise place a financial obstacle
in the way of a student wishing to take part •
in the program.
McCall is excited about the impact the co-
op education program will have on the coun-
ty. The total cost has been estimated a $403
per student. This will be a bargain if it
equips over 400 young people to enter their
chosen fields with confidence and expertise,
and builds a mutually beneficial partner-
ship between businesses and schools in com-
munities in Huron County.
Riddell promises
tough measures
BY JACK RIDDELL, M.P.P.
HURON -MIDDLESEX
Environment Minister Jim Bradley has
pledged to continue tough- action against
polluters in the wake of a Toronto study
which showed unacceptably high levels of
toxic chemicals in Ontario food. Bradley
said the high levels of toxic chemicals, in-
cluding dioxin, were cause for genuine
concern.
The presence of toxic contaminants in On-
tario food was made public in a study paper
presented by the City of Toronto at the
World Large Lakes Conference in Michigan.
Bradley to members of the Legislature, "I
will not be satisfied until we have eliminated
these substances from our food chain."
A recent study, prepared by the Environ-
ment Ministry for the Ministry of
Agriculture and Food, revealed low levels of
dioxin in Ontario apples.
"More testing is clearly called for, and we
• are doing it for fruits, as well a milk, meat
and vegetables," Bradley stated. He in-
dicated the City of Toronto study justifies
the hard line against polluters taken by the
Environment Ministry on behalf of the On-
tario Liberal government. He said he agrees
with the report's recommendations that a
broad program of source reduction is the on-
ly sensible way to cut the amount of toxic
substances going into the environment and
thereby into our food.
When thy staff here at the Ministry of,
Agriculture and Food first heard there
might be problems with contaminants in
fruit, we asked the Environment Ministry to
analyzeapples for dioxin and diben-
zofurans. These results, which have just
been received from the Environment
Ministry laboratory, do not confirm the
Toronto Board of Health finding in apples.
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