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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-09-07, Page 6)ntetest in , French m;im+ ersion oi'French Iangtlge sc ool� t Ecole Ste. Marie in St.Jilj<9$h',s,is.hlgher thanhe thought Zurich area trustee Dave -Durand• told , fellow meinters of the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board Aug. 29. Trustees voted in Ally to keep the three room school open, and to investigate ei- thertype of facllity there by Sept 14984. Stratford trust- ee Ron Marcy wanted to knows who was doing the investigat- ing. ' Parents like the idea of partial French immersion, with all subjects taught in French at least 50 per cent of the day, Mr. Durand said. While a French immersion school is open to any children, a French lahguage school where all instruction is in French, must be established in an area, if at least 25 families with French back- grounds want it. French immersion is fine if everyone in the Ecole Ste. Marie community, plus others, want it, director of education Bill Eckert ,says. "But it's difficult to establish French immersion just for one area in the two counties." Parents ,from Stratford to Goderich knight want similar access to a French education for their children. A French language school at Ecole Ste. Marie, on the other hand, would be "legitimate" be- cause of the long established French community there. The administration will have to investigate the issue, said board chairman Ron Murray. Ecole Ste. Marie currently has 75 minutes a day of instruction in French, which hasn't been opposed by anyone and "I don't see a problem with people from Goderich or Stratford want- ing to bus their children to Ecole Ste. Marie." Dm00Bw © d�a of french immersion The problem the chairman sees with either French im- mersion of a French language schtxd is that there is no French high' school in either county for children to contin- ue their progress. Wye Ecole Ste, Marie grads are currently "marginally more skilled" in French than aver- age, ,that margin disappears after a couple'of years of high school, Mr. Eckert said, "be- cause the extra French is not there." Surely the extra French isn't lost, trustee Vincent Mclnnes said. It's the same as religion, which HPRCSS students study for eight years and then go on to a public high school, ,.They don't lose it, It's there." Trustee John Devlin, an ex -teacher, agreed. "They wouldn't lose their facility. Give them a couple of ritonths Can animals reason? BY ARLIN HACKMAN Federation of Ontario NRturaUsta Conventional wisdom still has it that intelligence, as demonstrated by conscious adaptive behavior or learn- ing, safely separbtes we humans from the "lower orders". of the "animal king- dom". We fancy ourselves as evolving ever faster towards perfect rationality while other sorry creatures straggle blindly into one of nature's dead ends. Well we haven't yet man- aged .to outwit the wily cockroach. And more serious- ly, ethologists, the scientists who study animal behaviour, are observing enough exam- ples of human -like intelli- gence that they are beginning to wonder if some of our winged and four -footed friends may literally have minds of their own. In other words is it possible that other animals can reason? Consider the humble heron. With a brain less than one-tenth' the size of ours it uses a feather as a fisherman uses a,fly,, dropping it on the 'water with its"bill, then' snatching the minnow which rises to feed. Traditionally this type of behavior was explained away as genetic programming, or blind in- stinct. Nowadays there are just too many astounding events of this kind to be dismissed so easily. In fact, a recent conference in Washington D,C. drew a host of scientists who do research- on the thinking and feeling process of animals. Their stories are of birds that bury food in hundreds of different lora-p1 tions and return a year later tql,, the very same spots; of ants that gesture, demonstrating the kind of service they want their colleagues to carry out; and fish that show community spirit by protecting the nests of unrelated fish which have to be away from their young. One honey bee expert, James L. Gould, reported experiments in which he moved a food source progres- sively further from a hive and was amazed to find that the bees began to anticipate his pattern of movement, arriv- ing at the new location in advance and waiting for him. These revelations are not comforting to everyone be- cause they challenge some cherished beliefs that have shaped our arrogant ap- proach to the natural world over centuries. We have conceived the natural world as a hierarchy of inter -species dominance with ourselves at the top, and the entire struc- ture designed to maintain our position. It allows us to reclaim" marshlands and "recover" mineral deposits and decimate wildlife popula- . tions with no doubt as to the propriety of our actions. No delusion was ever more tragic and it is not a moment too Fees announced for year of 1983 The Farm Income Stabi- lization Commission has an- nounced fees for the year 1983 of the three year 1982- 83-84 plan. For first year enrolment the fees are as follows on a per tonne basis: corn $2.00, soybeans 54.50, white beans 58.00, winter wheat $2.50, barley $2.00. Farmers who applied in 1982 will receive renewal forms in the mail. New applications may be picked up at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food offices or by writing to: The Farm Income Stabilization Com- mission, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Legi- slative Buildings, Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario. M7A 1 B7. Applications should be mailed on or before October 1st, 1983. Once calculations are made on the 1982 crop sales, an announcement will he made. Claims are made by SEAFORTH JEWELLERS submission of sales and weigh slips if a payment is to be made by the commission. -S.J. Paquette Farm Management Specialist at university (in Fteni:h) and it would come back,4t' , Students would need to get Grade 9 and 1Q high school French credits, if:they were educated to that point in HPRCSS Grade 8 classes, the director, Mr. Eckert said. In other business,, the board: -discussed in committee - of -the -whole rejection of' its application for a S700,000 COED grant to do about $1.5 million incapital improve- ments to aumber of schools in the system; -received copies of a book- let on bus safety developed by Lin Steffler for distribution to every family in the HPRCSS system (part of the board's first in the province bus safety program, the booklet cost about 50 cents per copy); -learned that the co-opera- tive evaluation team for the ministry study of the school system has been selected; -supported a resolution from the Lincoln County Roman Catholic Separate School Board asked for addi- tional funding and recogni- tion for students who are severely retarded and devel- opmentally handicapped. soon that our scientists art. -The cost per student will be confirming that this delusion three times, the allowable alone sets us clearly apart from the rest of the natural world. — D(l jj 1 don't kntLw. Somehow 1 v 1lllf�1 �j � can't ever see respecting a chicken for its intelligence. But then, the modern chicken is one of our ,own brilliant creations. Hmmm. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wil- liams spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Eric Campbell of Exeter, BENDER'S ABATTOIR MILL STREET - HENSALL expenditure for the trainable retarded, the board says; -approved the appointment of Don Farwell as principal of Immaculate Conception School in Stratford effective this month. Mr. Farwell, who was principal at SL Joseph's, Clinton, requested t'he move. DRYWALL KNOWN FOR HIGH QUALITY . Jiro McDade,- of St. Mary's, GOtlerlch, will be acting prin- cipal until Dec. 31. The opening at St. Joseph's will be advertised inside and out of the system. 'rH HURON EXPOSITOR, SEPTEMBER 7, 1953 -- A5 Brodhagen -.:eorrei�p�pndent' MRS. $.ILS 1 NBARVIT 345.2419 Church service at St. , Peter's Lutheran Church, Brodhagen, begins lit the usual time et 11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11. Sunday School resumes at 9:30,0,m. on Sunday after a summer holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Art Mc n' on of Kitchener attended the worship service on Sunday and visited with relatives. • Peter Bakos Drywall COMPLETE DRYWALL SERVICE , 527-1398 Seed Wheat FREDRICK '- FOUNDATION and REGISTERED,and CERTIFIED Ask about (jiscount for pick-up and cash Early order discount to Sat. Sept. 17th/83 0.00 R.T. Bolton & Son 527-0559 "DEPENDABLE QUALITY PEDIGREED SEED" Many attended the Mitchell Mr with ideal weather, The children will be return- ing to achooj for another term this week. 1 don't know who was, looking forward to it more, the children or the mothers. Be Sure to attend Brumfield Fire Department's PANCAKE BREAKFAST and BAKE SALE Saturday, Sept. 10 from 7 a.m. -1 p.m. at Bruceleld Fire Hall All proceeds for new fire equipment STOCK YOUR FREEZER FOR BACK -TO -SCHOOL WIENERS 994 PKG. Our own - Medium Ground Beef PURE BEEF PATTIES Our own - Medium GROUND BEEF $1.29 LB. 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For example. addiiig.1n electric plc 'I to your oil furnace tvill reduce the amount of oil you use by up to''; Fier cent. \\'hilc Aiding a heat pump trill not only cut heating hill., by 2I1 to 311 per ccitt. but also provide aur conditioning in the sununcr, for eltiacnt year -mural Cnmtort. 0 your furnace does race ] replacing. an electric furnace or one 01 the other cicanc St,tcnts c.ui heat your home cleanly. eltictentl and economically. lake to know more''' fake a minute now and write to ()mark) I hydro, RRoom'1J7 FI.700 University ,\venuc,'ldronto Nl5(. 1X0 and ask for our tree booklet 'Fleetnc 1 letting Options for Your I Lome: Recluse the minute you take iwty could add up to big sayings come December.. Go Electric H,M ATTENTION AREA. FARMERS Fully Processed PORK SIDES 954 LB. 12.14 Ib. average = Ready for your freezer PORK LOINS $1.791.13. Your choice . Beef BLADE ROAST SHOULDER ROAST SHORT RIB ROAST $1.39 LB. 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