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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-07-25, Page 17Page 27tcrosaroada—july 25. 1984. "BRIGHT BUT REPEATING?" Dear Mr. Gore, I have a child who will be repeating Grade 2 in the fall. A didn't find out until her March report card that there was a problem. At that time I had an interview with the teacher and repetition was mentioned. I have a friend who is a teacher and my child was tutored by her twice a week from April until June. My child appreas to be a very bright, intelligent sort and this business of repeti- tion has bothered me all along. I requested in June that she be tested by a psy- chometrist. The psychomet- rist's findings were that her overall performance was in the high average range. Her general level of. intellectual functioning was in the super- ior range. In the verbal con- ceptulization subtests simi- larities, comprehension and vocabulary were in the su- perior to very superior range. She had' significant weak- ness on the digit span. Her short-term memory for visual, motor and auditory vocal sequences were poor. Also her visual spatial pro- cessing abilities were not as developed as her verbal abil- ities. The psychometrist, aiorig with three other teachers recommended repitition of Grade 2 plus 50 minutes per day of special education in the areas where she is poor. Do you think this will help to improve her disability or is there something else that can be done to overcome this. I am very disappointed with the school. I feel . I wasn't told about this soon enough and also I feel my child didn't get much help either. I was .just saying to my husband, if I ever won a lot- tery my child certainly would not be going to a pub- lic school! I feel the school system needs a lot of im- proving. They need more teachers to'spend time with their pupils. My child is a bright little Individual and I can't figure out why she is having to go through this. Can you help me? 0 0 0 Dear Mrs. B. K., It was in your daughter's best interest and to the credit - of your school board that you were able to have the testing done so quickly. From your description the WISC-R ( Weschsler Intelligence Scale for Children — Revised) was apparently ad - 'ministered. This test is di- vided into two -categories -- verbal and performance with five subtests counted in each. The digit span subtest in the verbal section is given but it is not used in the over- all verbal score. The Mazes subtest in the performance section is generally not given. The three verbal sub - tests mentioned in you letter are generally accepted as a reliable measure of true in- tellectual potential. Your daughter scored in the superior to very superior range, meaning that she per- formed better than 8.5 to 95 per cent of all children given the test. The reference to her -"- The Warning Signs Our eroding tax morals spatial processing abilities refers to the performance section. By taking into ac- count your daughter's super- ior verbal score and her full scale sore in the high aver- age range, then her perform- ' ance section score must be in the low average range. A dif- ference of more than 10 to 15 points between the verbal and performance scores is accepted as a definite indi- cator of learning disabilities, especially if the verbal is the highest. Another indicator is the subtest scatter (the dif- ference between certain sub - tests). It appears that your daughter demonstrates both. From the little information you were able to provide I would suspect that your daughter is experiencing dif- ficulties with reading, phonics and printing, per- haps even some reversal tendencies might be evident. These difficulties can be ex- plained in terms of neurolog- ical maturational develop- ment and I suspect that the school has adopted this ex- planation. If this is the case, then perhaps the repeat 'is the best direction for your daughter. However, these difficulties can also be ex- plained in terms of learning disabilities. The school also sees some credence in -this explanation or they would not have offer- ed the special education assistance of 50 minutes per day next year. In my opinion the amount of time given a child in special education is directly related to the length of time that special educa- tion is required. In other words, on hour per day may mean 3 years of assistance, whereas two hours per day Fred Gore may mean only 2 years and so on. Also the higher the concentration and consis- tency of present help is, the lower the risk of needing fu- ture assistance becomes. I will send you 'some sug- gestions for improving memory and visual motor processing skills. You should also consider having your daughter's auditory and visual processing abilities tested. Dr. Betty Fretz in Listowel, 137 Inkerman St. — 291-1220, is very knowledg- able in the area of vision and learning and the K -W Hospi- tal or the K -W Hearing Ser- vice 824 King St, Kitchener, 578-1172 will look after you for the auditory processing testing. (The hospital has a six to eight month waiting list but it is covered by OHIP ). Astor the repeat, I suggest you request a formal IPRC meeting and I would recom- mend that you invite some- one to go with you whom you know and trust. This person should also be familar with Bill 82. For your further informa- tion, here is a scale of intelli- gence categories used in my profession. Classification and IQ range followed by Percentile ranking: Borderline 68-79, 3-10; Low Average 80-89, 11-25; Average 90-109, 27-71; Bright 110-119, 73-88; Superior 120-132, 89-97; Very Superior 133-143, 98- 99; Gifted 144 plus, 99 plus. As you can see the largest portion of our society falls within the average range. by Erma•Bombecic It was one of those days that a mother dreams about. It was Saturday and I could sleep until I got a headache. The kids were grown and on their own. Nothing in the house leaked oil, dripped water, smoked when you plugged it in, made a funny sound or had a light burnt out. There were no deadlines and the big insur- ance premium was paid. I didn't have a thing in the world to worry about. s Then the phone rang. It was one of my kids telling me she was driving to Vegas and not to worry. NOT TO WORRY! Now I had to devote at least five hours to wondering if the car would break down, or if some crazy would cross the center line and run her off the road. Suppose someone ripped off her credit cards and • money. Five hours out of a perfectly good day sitting around waiting for a police officer to call and say, "I have someone here who wants to talk to you. Speak up. She's in traction." Five hours of unrelenting fear. Would she reach over to change stations on the radio and hit a horse that ran out in front of the car? -Would she drop into a roadside place for a hamburger and be dragged out on the road by a motor- cycle gang who did wheelies around her? Would a sheriff running for governor ' pick her up for alleged speeding and accuse her of a crime for which he needed a suspect because he needed national press coverage? When the phone rang ' again, it was another child who informed me he was going fishing in a rubber raft in the ocean. "I hope you're not con- sid k ng going this week - en i,s, ' I said. "I'm already haif crazy worrying about your sister driving to Vegas which is going to take at least five hours of misery and mental anguish." "We're only going to be out for about four hours." I was going to wash my hair, but what's a mother to do? I cancelled that in case a Russian submarine surfaced just under their boat and dumped them into the Paci- fic. Or what if they caught a fish so gigantic it pulled their boat out into the open sea? Of course, there was always a strong possibility of Jaws III coming to the beach for the summer, or a tidal wave they didn't hear about be- cause, a rock station didn't carry .the news. By my calculations. I had W. Roger Worth More and more Canadians, it seems, are joining the thou- sands of individuals taking ad- vantage of what has become known as the "underground economy", and the shift has produced an estimated $50 - billion worth of income on which governments aren't col- lecting taxes. Simply put, the underground economy is that murky system that includes, among thou- sands of other examples, the taxes not paid by waiters or waitresses who don't report the full extent of their tips. Or the plumber who moonlights after hours and gets paid in cold, hard, unreported cash. Indeed, in the broadest -sense of the term, the under- ground economy includes everyone who receives money for handling tasks large and small, but doesn't report the income to the tax collector. The reason for the seeming increase in the underground network? Canadians are now paying 40 per cent or more of their income in taxes and many feel they are being ripped off. So they fail to report some of the cash they earn, believing they are morally justified because the government will only waste the extra tax dollars anyway. They fully understand the practice is illegal, but the underground economy devo- tees are able to point • to specific projects where gov- ernments are tossing away crossroads Published every Wednesday by Wenger Bros. Limited as the lifestyle and 'entertainment section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance - Times, The Mount Forest Confederate and The Milverton Sun. 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Or why those who deliver the mail are able to earn $25,000 per year, while they are paid less, even though they may be better educated and harder workers. People working in the un- derground economy read about the banks and other major companies paying 10 to 20 per cent of profits in taxes, when they feel the rate should be 50 per cent or so. They also hear stories about the few hun- dred Canadians who pay no tax at all, even though they earn more than $100,000 per year. (That's known as good , tax planning,) What's sad is that the vol - 10 or 12 hours of worry ahead of me when I heard from my 'third child. "Don't tell me," I said. "You're climbing Mt. Everest in tennis shoes just to punish your mother." "Actually," he said, "I'm staying home this weekend." I couldn't believe his in- sensitivity. Now I had to worry that he had no friends or social life. Unable to relate to anyone, he would become more withdrawn and finally trust no one. Eventu- ally, he would pull his blinds and eat out of a saucepan on, the stove. I would never go to his wedding where everyone said, "She looks too young to be his mother." I would never dangle grandchildren on my knee where people would say, "She looks too young to have grandchild- ren." What are they trying to do to me? BAD DRIVING There are still drivers who blame bad weather condi- tions for accidents. They will say that visibility is bad and the roads are slippery. The implication is that they would be a lot less likely to have an accident on a' nice citY day. The fact is, these are just the conditions under which most accidents happen, according to the On- tario Safety League. Appar- ently, some drivers' sharp safe driving edge is dulled by complacency with no light- ning, thunder or black sky to Make them alert. In the final analysis, it is not bad weather that causes acci- dents. It is jilt plain bad driving. untary tax reporting system that has served us so well over the years is being eroded each time an individual fails to pay tax, even on a few extra dollars worth of income. Such individuals are wrong when they break the law. But they do have a point when they talk about wasteful govern- ment spending. It has become clear that governments do spend a lot of taxpayer dollars needlessly, as one auditor general after another has noted. But that still don't justify tax eva- sion, which is really what we are lking about. CLEARING AUCTION We have been instructed by the owners Mrs. & Mrs. George Keil to disperse by public auction: business warehouse, four bedroom home, automobiles, antiques and furniture on Victoria St., Gorrie, Ontario on Sat., July 28,10 a.m. sharp See full list in July 18 • Crossroads (last week's issue) CLETUS DALTON AUCTION Auctioneer; • COL. CLETUS DALTON (519) 529-7420 AUCTION SALE Of Real Estate, Antiques, Household Fur- niture, Tools will be held for the Estate of EDGAR WATSON 620 Stauffer 'Street in the village of Lucknow, 3 blocks north of Johnstone Furniture on Sat., July 28 12:00 noon REAL ESTATE: consists of 2 houses. No. 1 - Lot 312, plan 36, 620 Stauffer Street, Lucknow - 1 I/2 storey, 7 room includes .3 bedrooms, 3 piece bath, kitchen, dining room, living room, carport, driving shed on 82' x 1'32' lot. No. 2 - Lot 320 (west part), plan 36, 661 Wheeler Street, Lucknow - bungalow, 5 room includes 2 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, bathroom on 66' x 82' lot. If not sold prior to sale. Selling subject to reserved bid. ANTIQUES: square oak table with 4 leaves; 5 press back chairs; 2 windsor chairs; lounge; several odd chairs; 2 lamps (1 oil); 2 pine chests; 8 quilts, like new; 2 collector trays; 2 part sets of dishes; silverware; glassware; odd dishes; blue bench; leg vise; several old pic- tures; old tools; several crocks (1 - 6 gal., with lid); gladstone bag; leather trunk; .broad axe. FURNITURE: parlour table; 3 small tables; chesterfield; upholstered chair; wicker Magazine table; 2 foot stools; 5 drawer pine chest; pine dretter;. piano stool; wringer washer; cherry bed and springs. TOOLS & MISC.: small barbecue, nearly new; skil saw; sander;. shovels; new tools; lumber nails; baby bath; diaper pail; quantity of articles top ,numerous to mention. TERMS ON CHATTELS: Cash day of sale or Cheque with I.D. Real Estate 10% down day of sale, balance in 30 days at closing. Lunch booth. LANGSIDE AUCTION SERVICE 528-2186 or 392-8240 Sale Manager and Auctioneers: ALLAN R. MILLER JOE METZGER BILL HALDENBY Executrix: MRS. LAURA E. KEARNS AUCTION SALE Of Farm Machinery for 3 Farmers plus Con- signments at Gray's Auction Centre, corner Hwys. 87 & 89, 1 mi. w. of Harriston on • T.ues., July 31 6:30 pm TRACTORS: 8600 Ford with cab and new radio, 20.8 x 38 tires, 4200 hrs., good; 350 McKee Ebro,. P.S., with Dunham loader, 1400 hrs.; 1030 Case, cab, 23.1 x 30 tires, good; 1250 Cockshutt; 465 Neuffield; 1470 Cockshutt; 9N Ford. TRACTORS FOR PARTS: 30 Cockshutt; VA Case; 30 M.H.; International, M. COMBINE: J.D. No. 40 with belt pick up and reels, good running order. eQUIPMENT: 193/4' Vicon cult; 10' Flex packer; M.F. No. 880 5 x 18 auto reset plow; 4 row McKee scuffler; 10 ton dump wagon with pto; Killbros No. 350 grain box on 10 ton wagon with extensions and fertilizer auger; 5 furrow 16" trip beam plow; 18Case cult.; 14' J.D. disc;,3 p.h. 7' Turner flail mower; 3 p . h. 3 speed hyd. winch; Wick weed sprayer; 5 h.p. mortar mixer with gear box, 1 bag cap.; flat rack and wagon; Case No. 10 mower; 8' ,rag cult.; J.D. 100 gal. sprayer; 2 furrow drag plow; 3 p.h. 8' cult.; 6 sections harrows and pole; 3 furrow 3 p.h. J.D. plow; Cockshutt No. 11 seed drill; Gehl mix mill; 3 ohmower; side rake; N.I. manure spreader; Arts Way sila mix feeder wagon; 2 gravity boxes and wagons; N.H. 516 manure spreader; 720 McKee snow blower; 2 Farmhand wagons: Bushog mower; Little Giant grain and hay con.veyor. VEHICLES:, 1973 Ford pickup model F100; 1 976 Ford XLT, V8 3 speed model 250 with crew cab; 1973 Plymouth Valiant car, all selling - as is. 1976 Ford 350 with 4 speed pickup, selling certified. MISC.: Badger dist. hood; 5 steel pig feeders, ,,good shape; 1.5' x 3" auger and motor; cap for ton truck and other misc. items. rc+risignments taken until sale (ley To con- sign machinery phone Barry.or Keith at 338-3722 or 343-3607 -------' TERMS: Cash or Cheque with proper I.D. day of sale. Owners or auctioneers not responsi- ble for accidents day of sale. Any an- nouncements or corrections given verbally day of sale. Auctioneers: BARRY & KEITH GRAY Harriston (519) 3384722 or 3434607 Of Farm Machinery & Feed Lot Eqdipment for ROBERT McDONALD Brussels, Lot 11, Con. 16, Grey Twp., 11/4 miles north and 21/2 miles east of Walton on Mon., July 30 11:00 am TRACTORS: MF 1-080 diesel 18.4 x 34, front wheel wts., multi power and. weather break cap; MF 150 diesel high arch 13.6408 tires, multi power, Freeman loader with hydraulic bucket sells separate; Minneapolis Moline G900 diesel 18.4 x 38 tires, I. pto. _ TILLAGE: 1 6s/2 ft. Int. vibra shank cultivator; 5 section diamond harrows with stretchers; 4 section diamond harrows with stretchers; 5 fur- row semi -mount Allis Chalmers plow, 10 ft. Kewanee wheel disc; 2 row MF 3 p.h. corn scuffler. FORAGE: New Holland 770 harvester, 1000 r.p.m., wide hay pick up, new 1 row corn head, high moisture corn kit . h'eads sell separate; Case forage blower; 80,ft. 9 in. silo pipes and hood; Kasten self unloading _wagon on 9 ton running gar; Turnco self unloading wagon, needs new floor, 7 ton running gear. HAYING EQUIPMENT: New Holland 479 haybine; MF No. 10 baler; MF 6 bar rake; New Holland bale elevator 36 ft.; - 16 ft. hay wagons with runningkgears; 3 p.h. round bale fork. FEED LOT EQUIPMENT: 2 Smidley hopper self feeders; new steel feeder wagon; New Holland , 353: mix mill; 3 p.h. Golden Arrow 100 gal. weed sprayer; MF post hold auger; MF scraper blade 7 ft.; New Idea 214 manure spreader , with hydraulic end gate; Vic 5 ton dump trailer, gravity bin and running gear; cattle squeeze with self locking head gate; air compressor; welder; grinder; hydraulic cylinders and other misc. items. TERMS: Cash or Cheque day of sale. Farm is sold. Any announcements or corrections given verbally day of sale. Owner or auctioneer not responsible • for accidents day of sale. Proprietor: Robert McDonald RR 2 Brussels • •519-887-6821 CARSON'S AUCTION SERVICE • Auctioneer: David Carson • RR 3 Listowel 519-291-2049 CLEARING FARM AUCTION SALE Of Farm Machinery, Car & Trucks, Holstein Heifers, Feeder Pigs, Household Effects & Misc. for CAM SANDERS Atwood, Lot 18, Con. 9 Elma Twp., 1/2 mile east of Newry on County Rd. 19 on Wed., Aug. 1 11:00 am TRACTORS: MF 1080" cab and heater fully equipped in excellent condition;. Cockshutt 1450 diesel, equipped, Bob Cat No. 632 and 2 buckets. TILLAGE: MF 15 run seed drill on steel; 12 ft. vibra shankjnt. cultivator 12 ft. Eastern wheel disc; 6 sections Allied harrows and stretcher; 4 sections diamond harroWs.and stretchers; 10- ft. land packer; 4 furrow int. semi -mount plow. HAYING: New Holland 479 haybine; Cockshutt No. 620 hay "baler; Massey 4 bar side rake on steel; 3 flat racks and wagons; Ebersol 28 ft. bale elevator; manure spreaders; 518 New Holland pto 2 beater and New Holland 346 tank spreader; Starliner tank spreader. HARVESTING: MF super No. 92 combine with straight cut head, Melrose pickup sells separate; Hesston No. 280 10 ft. swather with' pickup reels; 3 gravity bins and wagons sell as units; 36 ft. 6 in. Century pto auger; 4 in. grain auger. MISC.: Winpower alternator on a trailer; 10 ft. chain harrows; McCulloch chain saw; work bench; hay feeder; Ariens No. 626 riding lawn mower; cutter 4 x 16 weaver decks; misc. items. CAR & TRUCKS: 1976 Ford Minis car, 4 door automatic, fully equipped; 1974 500 Dodge with new 8 x 10 steck.van, excellent condition, certified, 318-3 motor; 1973 Chev 3/4 ton pickup with racks, sells as is;. 175 Yamaha 3 wheeler and 2 wneel trailer. FEEDER PIGS: approx. 130 feeder pigs, 80 to 180 lbs. CATTLE: 28 Holstein listed open heifers, 300 • to '600 lbs., all unit sired. FURNITURE: 3 end tables; dishwasher, Ad- miral, good condition; stove, self cleaning, Lady Kenmore, excellent condition; solid wood corner hutch cupboard; dresser; solid wood - wardrobe; antiques; 2 shelf cupboard on wheels; 3 blanket, boxes; magazine rack; Col- onial smokers stand, wooden; high chair; rocker; 2 child's record players; kitchen chair; press back chair; lawn swing set; windows and screens; lawn chairs; some childrens' toys; dryer; 2 old fridges; wooden table; jars; small misc. household items; single spring and mat- tress. ORDER OF „ SALE: Furniture, wagon load, machinery and livestock. TERMS: Cash or Cheque day of sale, 7 per cent sales tax in effect. Lunch booth. Any an- nouncements or corrections given verbally 'day of sale. Owner or auctioneer not respon- sible for accidents day of sale. Farm is sold. Proprietor: Cam Sanders Atwood 356-2609 CARSON'S AUCTION SERVICE Auctioneer:. David Carson RR 3 'Listowel 519-291-2049