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The Brussels Post, 1975-10-01, Page 8There will be a Gospel. Song Service Brussels United Church Sunday Evening, Oct. 5 7:30 pm Everyone Welcome Come and. Support the Choir4 ***********A-********** Entertainment at THE QUEEN'S HOTEL * * • BRUSSELS 111 The Tan Mero *Show * 4t From Kincardine . SUNDAY NIGHT MENU: — PERCH DINNER ik 4-4-**********10-41-***** 4.1st * •••••Nti At At The NEW AMERICAN HOTEL BRUSSELS, ONT. **********4-** Friday Night:— Howard Smith Saturday night: — Tiffins Orchestra DANCE Saturday, October. 11th Brussells Legion Hall Music by The Country Companions Admission : 3.00 per couple Restricted to 18 years & over Friday, Saturday,and Sunday FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY October 3..4 and 5 itIS UFEU Ekeld I by the assauirt,lte hunted. ADULT ENTERTAINMENT Mod too play It by the kW .1 Ohl" I • CiEORGE IN -LAW AOULt ENTERTAINMENT Sugar and Spice by Bill. Smiley trades to enter teaching, not for more money, but for better working conditions, security — many reasons. Over a decade they saw their former ' trades become more and more affluent, as wages went up and up, until the former electricians, mechanics, draftsmen, now teachers, were making considerably less as teachers than they would be as skilled workers, and with three times the tension. There are very few young technicians coming into teaching now. Who needs it, when he can make $80 a day at his job, and leave it behind when he finishes work? From F. W. Reinhold, Superintendent of Schools in the Fort Vermilion School Division, in the Peace River district of Alberta, came another missive. Written at the end of last June, the letter says: "I read your article in the Brooks Bulletin re Tough Time for Teachers and am wondering if you are serious . . . There is no surplus of teachers in Western Canada ... we still have 22 vacancies at the Elementary level and six at the junior- senior high level." Twenty-eight vacancies at the end of June. In one school district! Mr. Reinhold enclosed a terse but shocking resume of his school board's attempt to staff its schools. After extensive advertising in Alberta dailies, American newspapers, and listings with Manpower, here's the picture: December, 1974: Wrote to 15 first- semester graduates at University of Lethbridge expressing interest in hiring them. Not one replied to my letters. February, 1975: Extensive advertising and Manpower (received 45 applications). Feb., 1975: Extensive advertising U.S. papers (approximately 400 applications received). Feb., 1975: Conducted interviews U. of Calgary and U. of Alberta; 49 applicants interviewed. Three agreed to sign a contract. May, 1975: 32 vacancies listed with Manpower. Two replies. April and May: more advertising. June, 1975: 40 vacancies. Only 54 applications were received from Canadian teachers. Result: three accepted contracts; 30 . accepted contracts elsewhere; seven will not accept a contract at this time; five are not- suitable. So. When he wrote, Fort Vermilion . School Division was short 28 teachers for September. I take back' all my sympathy, for young teachers. One of two things is obvious. Either the Fort Vermilion School Board is one of the worst in the world, which I doubt. Or all you young idealists, of both sexes, don't really want to teach that much. You want a nice job, in a nice school, not too far from Mom and Dad, in the city or close to it, where you won't get y our feet wet or your hands dirty, won't be too cold or too lonely. Otherwise, you'd be up there in Peace River, getting the experience of your young lives and finding out what makes you tick. Last spring, while perusing about 80 applications for one job teaching English, I expressed sympathy for the young, graduates of teachers' colleges, all set to go, wanting to be teachers, and scarcely a job in sight. At the time, I suggested it was rotten planning: graduating abbut 10 teachers for each job available. I still think it is. But the column brought a couple of interesting responses, which I haven't managed to get around to answering. Thought I'd do so now, as we are launched into a new year of teaching and learning. Miss M. A. Buck ofWindsor, 'Ontario, read the column in the Tillsonburg News, and took issue with it, in a lady-like fashion and the most exquisite handwriting •I've seen in years. She writes: "You have described the situation very well as it applies to the job market in the area of Secondary English; however, it concerns me that young people who are considering a career in teaching might think that there are no opportunities in teaching at all. This is far from true. "There is a demand for Secondary teachers of Mathematics, Physics, Girls' Physical Education, Home Economics, Art, Music, Business and Secretarial subjercts, and Technical areas. There are also excellent opportunities for those who wish to teach in the Public or Separate Elementary schools." Well, thanks, Miss Buck. This is heartening news. I don't know about the Maths and Physics. I doubt there's a "demand" for them, but there's always room for a good one. Art and Music teachers are sitting pretty. But only because they are scarce. Any dope can teach English, as I am frequently reminded, but few young people I have the talent and training for the arts. Girls' Phys. Ed., yes. Perhaps this is because of attrition.. A lot of the younger ones get married and have babies.And it's tougher and tougher to put the girls over the hurdles with each year y ou put on yourself. Elizabeth Taylor, I am happy to say, will be able to make ends meet.And she has no need for reunion with Richard Burton to do so. Liz is a young friend of ours, a contemporary of my daughter, and I nursed her through Grade 10, 12 and 13 English. She graduated last June as a Phys. Ed. teacher, and was hired by the first school she applied to. She couldn't believe it when I told her how much money she'd be making — about $11,000 a year. "Migavvd, I'm rich!" Then we started to figure income tax, salary deductions for this and that, and cost of living. She won't even be well-to-do. Home Fc.? Again, I agree. We lost a oung lady last June, because she had to move to the city. She had another job in Iwo weeks. I don't know why they're scarce. Technical teachers? Yes. There's a shortage. And a reason. About 15 years ago, quite a few technicians deserted their Classified Ads pay dividends. Country Singles Dance SAT. OCT. 4 at VANASTRA MUSIC BY "FOUR OF A KIND" Refreshments SERVED Watch for our special "Octoberfest Dance" on OCT. 18 AT VANASTRA MUSIC BY "ENCORE" 8—THE BRUSSELS POST,. 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