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Grey Council at its November $17,238.53 and Roads & Bridges
meeting Monday, November 1st $6,730.12.
accepted the tender of Glenn
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Education ruling no change
SDHS has compulsory
The provincial education
minister's announcement that
high school students will have to
take more core subjects won't
make much of a change at
Seaforth District High School,
according to principal Bruce
Shaw.
He says SDHS has been
handing out subject selection
sheets to Grade 8 students and
telling them they must take six
subjects but can choose two
others.
"The ministry said we can't do it,
• but we've been doing it anyway."
"We're really protecting the
kids against themselves." He
said the school attempts to talk to
the students and say "Look, you
want to take this but you really
should have' this core subject
too."
This system of strongly
advising kids who are making
subject choices means that 100
per cent of the students at SDHS
are taking English and about 94
McKercherR2, Bluevale, at the
rate of $14.50 per hour for
snowplowing for the , 1976-77
season and for standby time at
$12.00 per day. The tender of
James A dams, R.R.#2, Bluevale,
also was accepted, at the rate of
$16.00-per hour for snowplowing
and standby time at $15.00 per
day. Both are subject to the
approval of M.T.C.
Other decisions - taken by
council included:
That the request of Johan
Veldhorst, Elmer Martin and
Lloyd Martin to repair the
Rowland Drain be accepted and
that John Johnston be appointed
commissioner.
That we give the Cranbrools
Cemetery Board a Grant of $200.
That the tender of Hanna and
Hamilton Construction Company
Limited, Listowel, Ontario, for
the construction of the
Beauchamp Creek Municipal
Drain at the price of $124,846.20
be accepted subject to the
approval of E. W. Shifflet, P.
Eng. of Grarnsby and Mannerow
Limited.
That building permits be
grant ed to: Bob Alexander, pole
barn; Eric Whelan, driving shed;
Murray Cardiff, siding on house; •
Bruce Speiran, siding on barn;
Albert Thielman, trailer and
garage; Hansden Dekker, driving
shed; Charles Terpstra, house.
That the Huron County Boar d
of Education and the Huron-Perth
Separate School Board be
requested to have the payments
of education levy for the year 1977
made in two, instalments,
namely, the 30th day of June and
the 15th day of December.
That provisional By-law No. 11
of 1976 for the undertaking of
repairs of the Knechtel Municipal
Drain be given first and second
readings.
Accounts approved I for
payment included General,
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per cent of them are taking math,
the principal says.
For a few years after 1972,
when the credit system was in full
swing, it was possible for SDHS
students to go all through high
school, including Grade 13 and
never take an English course. "It
was wide open for two or three
years," The SDHS principal
admits.
In 1974 the province made
English and Canadian Studies
courses compulsory ... but only
six courses, over four years at
high school.
The Huron County Board of
Education had been getting a
good response from a resolution
it's been circultating to other
boards, calling on the province to
provide more guidance on
curriculum.
And the education mini try's
promise that it's subject
guidelines to schools will become
much more detailed, is a much
more important change in the
local principal's va.e.w.
The current guidelines in
English, which were last issued in
1964, consist of 15 pages
including two covers, three blank
sheets, two pages of poetry and
four large photos. The SDHS
principal, an English teacher,
says• it's' quite a job to design
courses for all five grades, from
its vague, generalities.
It says a bit about classrooms
and time tables, but nothing at, all
about literature.
It's a big change from earlier
guidelilnes which ran to 200
pages and listed books that were
to be read, and told bow they
were to be taught.
Cur Ticulum guideli nes in
other subjects are pretty
uninformative too but "English is
the worst," Mr. Shaw says.
• A Press release from education
minister Thomas Wells says
'English guideli nes will be
revised to ensure that- every
student 1 receives a good
grounding in. essen, tial
communication skills, including
the traditional concepts of
English composition, grammar
and literature." The present
guidelines include two sentences
on grammar.
subjects •
But is the province going' to science as well? The SDHS , tire more education experts to principal doesn't think so.
prepare these detailed They've got plenty of people he guidelines, not only in English, says and many of the eXperts but in. Catiadian history and have been very little use in the geography and in "math and classroom up 'til, now.
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