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Times-Advocate, 1982-12-08, Page 29• 4JANOME Sowing; Demonstration Fri., Dec. 10 at 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. for one hour airsi Leopper L.cs ckcr f URN(' URE 1111 Dec. 8 to Dec. 14 4<*41*****4<4<a<4<***************** Cherry 354 * Tarts 6/$1.79 Oust c********* K*******fit******** Bran Muffins 2 f 6/99 f Centre " the Cookie Cutter :• •?ty •�tr++t W. ' Deliver 235-012= Readers write About teachors, farm reporter and egg Dear Sir: teacher who ran into grave administrators, so there pupils is a The I wonder if there is a domestic difficulty. For loss at both ends• businessman or farmer in all months his performance are robbed of superior of Huron County who know- dropped off badly. He too was teaching and the staff become ingly retains dead wood in his kept on at the expense of all subjected to ineffective prin- employ. Yet we have let . his students. The proper pro- cipals and vice -principals, ourselves be manouvered cedure would have been to who are a virtual disaster. largely by default into having give him leave of absence, un• Your children and my our school children exposed to til his problems smoothed out. andchildren will continue to suffer until teachers are upgraded on performance and subject to release for poor performance,can only take place if )011i1(eep cons- tant board tant pressure on your and the combined boards lean I, on Queen's Park. It will never happen voluntarily_ Bill Hart sub -par teaching. How bad is the situation? The British did a recent in- . depth study and concluded that not less than 4 percent of all teachers were delivering below acceptable standards and another three were marginal in performance. There is no reason to believe, that a similar investigation . here would show better results. Now that enrolment is tapering off, teachers have been dropped. Unfortunately performance is not the criterian for dismissal, but length of tenure. So in de- fiance of logic and concern for the pupils, bright young teachers may be booted while older but inefficient staff have to be retained. Most, though not all of us work better under pressure. With the pressure removed by Securing tenure, it is human nature to let one's feet drag a bit. The most glaring example I was personal witness to was that of a teacher that was soir- rational that every member on the staff was aware of her instability. Believe it or not she was retained on the staff until an ambulance called at the school to carry her off. We never saw her again but heard she was committed to an institution. That should never have happened and could not in a properly run system. Anothercase worth citing was that of a very able. Both school boards and principals working together badly need the power to dismiss the incompetents. There is an odd corollary to this. Though the ineffective teacher cannot be dismissed, neither is there just provision to bonus the superior teacher, other than to kick him upstairs into administration. As often as not, really superior teachers make poor Molting Hawks get a victory Dear Sir: "One foot in the furrow," by Bob Trotter is one of the many pleasures in reading your weekly paper, it is so good I sent it on to my farmer brother in N.B., who reports: The Exeter Molting Hawks 'That fellow thinks the same were victorious in one of three as I do, so he must be right.' games played this week. - Some df Bob's recent ar- Their only win came by a titles mention the lack of ap- score of 15-5 over Hensell in preciation by the urban an exhibition game. They lost population of the farmers' 17-4•to a strong Seaforth club plight today. As a farm boy and were edged 7-6 by CFB who has lived in the cities for London. many years I would like to Keith Ahrens, Bob raise only one question - the McDonald, Bill Pincombe and egg. Jim Russell each scored three How many of us in the city goals against Hensall while have sat down to a hurried Mike Cushman fired two sic- breakfast of a couple of eggs cessful shots and Bob Jones boiled, poached, or fried and added a single. at the first mouthful spit it out In the loss to Seaforth, and dumped the remains in defenceman Al Flynn scored the garbage can; the carton his first goal of the season. clearly marked Fresh Eggs!! Also getting one goal apiece After a second or third oc- were. Mike Cushman, Pete curance like this, when his McFalls and Jim MacDonald. wife had the eggs replaced, a Bob -Jones and Jim Pfaff calm normal person like turned in two goal efforts in myself who likes his the close loss to CFB London. breakfast will cause him to Scoring single goals were Jim storm into the supermarket MacDonald and Keith demanding to see the Ahrens. manager, who is told that if it • 00111Ph illOt • SEND YOUR CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TH E EASY WAY Let over 18,000 readers see your Christmas Greeting. All you have to do is complete the handy coupon below and mdke sure it reaches us by Monday, Dec. 20. all ..IINI♦NI.tMtBNI 1 1 1 1 Name Mail to: Times -Advocate, Box 850, Exeter, Ont. :Address III III III III III 1111 III III III III III III III My Christmas Greeting is 1 a 1 1 11 11 1 1 1 ,Cheque Enclosed 0 25 words - '2.75 Additional Words 10c each III III III III III III III III III III III III III III III III III III III III 110 III III III III III III Note • All Greetings Must Be Received by Monday, Dec. 20 ever happens again he will drop the remaining ten eggs up and down the beautiful store aisles one by one. The manager's usual response is that he only sells what they send him. Who are they? Most city folks know an egg comes from a hen, hens live on a farm, farms are owned by farmers, therefore, farmers are the culprit. I know the eggs are fresh when they leave the farm or factory (my basic training included many a wet cow's tail across the face on a rainy summer's night), the questions are where do those fresh eggs go between the farm gate and the store shelves, how long can they stay in storage and still be marked "Fresh Eggs"? How are they marked when the storage period is over the Come to the Movies With We now have Video Disc and Movie RENTAL See the movies you want to see when you want to see them Rent By The Day or Weekend Book now for fife Christmas and New Year's Holidays 3. Times-Advocote, December 8, 1982 Pole 17A limit, what happens to them? Must confess .1 don't know and 1 am sure 99 percent of the consumers don't either; perhaps Bob can answer these questions. Something is being swept under the hen roosts and it does not improve the farmer's image. 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