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The Brussels Post, 1977-11-16, Page 9..„ Pardo Dairy Supplies • . Brut.t.eit .487-6694 THE BRUSSELS. POST, NOVEMBER 16, 1977 —7 18 Mr, of the by the ly the early, )derich school see a their Dsts, e period )artute ample trustee Indered am the ;ally as :e. She tudents see the tudents mild be ,s right ucation rd that ays as up for :hat the iial had Jut had all of their y had to the suction to the I u scum Sylvan, is that af trips ay from Ian Mr. th trips trustee ?d ar cash Lt -2raig .7512 B of E studies ending grade 13 involved in the above and the social impact of such a move", Director of Education John Cochrane told the board that he would reommend that the matter be researched but was teary of the objective outlined in the Peter- borough resolution, He said he would like to see the word objective taken out of the resolution and have the H uron board show support for a study of the matter. , Cochrane said he felt the resolution was five years too late, pointing out that five years ago the board was trying to solve overcrowding problems using portable classrooms. Now, he said, the board is trying to find ways to fill schools due to declining enrolment. "I hope the board wouldn't support the resolution without researching it and having a look at the social implications of shipping youngsters off to university at 16 and 17 years of age," he said. Seaforth trustee John Henderson didn't agree with the director, pointing out that students in Grades 12 and 13 The Huron County Board of Education supported a resolution Monday to research the elimina- tion of Grade 13 from Huron County schooling but -refused to support any move to eliminate a year of formal education in county schools without thoroughly researching the eomplications. Acting on a resolution sent to the board by the Peterborough County Board of Education the Huron board agreed to study the elimination of Grade 13 but refused to support such a move without researching the subject. The Peterborough resolution stated that "with the objective of reducing the number of years of formal education at the elementary and secondary level, be it resolved that the Peter- borough board of education ask the Ontario Public Schoro1 Trustees' Association and the Ontario School Trustees' Council to co-operate with the Government of Ontario to research the educational merits, problems and impact of telescoping courses of study to 12 grades above kindergarten instead of 13, the costs savings The Huron County Board of Education supported a move to raise the legal drinking ,age in Ontario to 19.The board agreed with the raise in the drinking age and will send its feelings on to local and provincial government officials supporting legislation now in provincial legislature. The Oxford County Board of Education sent a letter to the Huron board asking that it support changes' in legislation which would result in raising the thinking age.. ThedOxfortti board felt the present legiSlation has resulted in f`an unacceptable situation in terms of its effect on health, safety and morality." The request from Oxford ,was accompanied with comments from Remo Mancini, M.P.P. for Essex South, who has introduced a private member's bill in the legislature to have the • legal drinking age raised froni 18 to 19. The province lowered the drinking age from 21 to 18 in 1971 but in recent years there has been pressure for a raises in the age. .4 Mr. Mancini cited a 1976 Addiction Research Foundation Survey showing that among a sample of 1,439 high school students in Ontario, 86 percent drank although less than 25 percent were of legal drinking age. Mr. Mancini said his bill would remove the practice of drinking from the province's high schools. Despite increasing support for the raising of the drinking age the bill is unlikely to pass according to a survey of cabinet ministers. The argument most frequently used by the cabinet ministers is that it would not be fair to allow a person to vote at 18 yet not drink until he turned 19. Director of Education John Cochrane supported that reasoning and told the board that the bill may be defeated on the basis of the voting age being 18. Rut Mr. Cochrane pointed out hat during the war there was a LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST - SEAFORTH 527.1140 Tuesday, Thtirsday, Friday 9:00-5:30 Wednesday, attirdaY 9:00 - 12:00 CLINTON .W-701.0 Monday 9:00 - 5t30 By Appointinen • al 'Si all law telling youngsters they had to fight when they were 18 but couldn't drink until they were 21. waste a lot of time in school and that their timetables almost.make them half time students. He said the students go to Grade 13 and don't need many credits for university entrance and the board is just prolonging the agony for a student who is anxious to go on to post secondary education. Goderich District Institute Principal John Stringer, a guest at the board meeting, said he believed Grade 12 and 13 time- tables were more than half time adding that Grade 13 was a very heavy year for a student. He said he had to agree with the director that this was not a good time to support elimination of Grade 13, adding that he hoped the board's decision was based on valid educational reasons rather than politics. Clinton trustee Dorothy Williams said that by abolishing Grade 13 the board may be adding to the provincial unemploymentproblem. She said that there was already an unemployment problem and if the board turned out students after Grade 12 those that didn't want to go on to university would add to the number of people that can't find jobs. The Peterborough board claimed that most other provinces in Canada and most jurisdictions in the world have proven they can prepare students for post secondary education in less than 13 years. The resolution claims that the public is showing greater concern for education costs and in ntario those costs offer students 15 years of formal educ'ation at public expense, 13 years plus kindergarten and junior kinder- garten. Mr. Henderson, said that the Grade 13 requirement holds back students with a post secondary education goal. He said that quite often students not involved with sports and other activities can make it through secondary school in four years and save the board a Health and Baking Supplies SPECIALS THIS WEEK Wheat Germ 25 4 1b. Glace Fruit Mix $1.30 lb. Raisins 95 1 lb. Jamestown Store 4 Miles North of Brussels 887-9042 ,considerable amount of money. "Why keep them in school?" he asked. "There are , no jobs available. Why not let them go to university and go through for something that will give them a career?" The motion to ,make abolishing Grade 13 the objective of the research was defeated 13-2 with one member abse nt. 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