The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-05-29, Page 23Ahmeek
winners
named
The Ahmeek Chapter IODE
held a successful Dessert Party
in the Legion Hall. Bridge Five
Hundred and Euchre • were
played after dessert.
•
The guests were welcomed
by the Regent Mrs. G. Hen-
derson. Mrs. • R. » Neville and
Mrs.' G. Stokes were in charge
of the tickets at the door. -
Mrs. F. Mills was general
convener of the party. Mrs. C.
Cutt was convener of the -kit,
chen with Mrs. F.• Waikom,
Mrs. W. Alexander, Mrs. G.
Emerson and Mrs. F. Stokes
• • •
The bake table was in the
charge of IVIrs.Hugill 'and Mrs.
J. Wilson, The miscellaneous
table was presided over by
Mrs. C. Murray.
Mrs. Milli looked after the
bridge tables, Mrs. Sitter the
five hundred, and. Mrs. S:
Robinson the euchre.
There were three lucky
teacups won by Mrs. R.
Craigie, Mrs. H. Salter • and
Mrs. M. Sand. The door prize
was won by Mrs. B. Badman.
Winners at bridge were Mrs.
W.G. MacEwan and Mrs. .
Berry% five hundred Mrs. Ed
Smith, and Mrs. V. Smith,
euchre winners were Mrs. M.
Good and Mrs. R. Matthews.
degree, excellent recom-
mendations, just •put PI
teacher's college. Discard her.
,No experience.
And when we narrow it down
"to six Or eight, they have. to
show up for a gruelling in-
terview (gruelling for me too)
and may have driven 300 miles
for it, and. drive home with
nothing to show for it but a
hearty "Thai* you for
coming".
The whole thing makes' me
sick. There's a great waste of
talented young teachers, many
of whom, in disgust, go into
some other way of Th-&ing a
living.
There's a whole slew of old -
teachers still in harness, who
are 'hanging on because archaic
, regulations make them hang on
until they are too old and sick
and stupid and tired to beof any
use to anyone, merely to draw
their pensions.
Surely in„ a country with our
resources, and in an age when
the computer can make ac-
curate projections, we can do
better than use this outmoded
system of supply and demand,
which may be all right for the
cattle market, but all wrong for
huinan beings. ••
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Graduate
Shelley Linner, daughterof Mr.
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Saltford, graduated on May 23
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University of Waterloo. Shelley
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Mathematics degree in the Co-
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This week I had the chore of
sorting through a huge pile of
applications for a job on our
high school-staf teaching
English. One eb and about 80
applications. That's the way
things are -these days in the
teaching game.
It's -a cruel world for young
people trying to break into the
profession. Armed with their
pieces of paper on which it says
right there in print that they
are now qualified teachers,
'they sally forth to 'put into
practice their -high ideals, their
warm personalities, their love
for young people, and the
results of four or five years of
university slugging.
And what do they find? A vast
indifference.. Nobody wants
them. Principals want people
with experience: But how do
you get experience if you can't
get a job?It's an old story in the
world of free enterprise, but it's
still -a sad one for those caught
in the vicious circle.
It's exactly like another facet
of the 'system of which we are
so proud: banking. If you're
broke and need money, a bank
won't loan it to you. If you're
rich and don't need money, you
have to beat off tl bankers
with a stick.
I couldn't help thinking, as, I
sat toying with people's lives, of
the vat change that has taken
place since I began teaching,
• about 15 years ago. ,
Those were the days when the
great post-war baby boom was
luting the high schools.
.Principals • were raiding
industry for technical teachers,
business for commercial
teachers.,
If you had a university
degree, it was as much as your
life was worth to walk past a
••• ,school. A lasso would snake out,
you'd find yourself getting a hot
• sales pitch in a principal's
, office, and next thing you knew
were standing in front of 35 kids
with your mouth hanging open.
Anyone who was. not ob-
c.
viously drunk or noticeably
retarded had a pretty fair
chance of winding • up in
teaching.
One daily newspaper ran
pages and pages. of teacher
wanted advertisements each,
spring, and school boards 'Spent
hundreds of thousands of
dollars on advertising. ,
I remember one spring when
I could have taken my pick of 28
jobs as an English department,
head, by picking up the phone.
Those werefat times for the
young graduating teachers,
too. Armed with nothing more
than a puny B.A.? they could
prett 11 pick and choose
-wh re the wanted to work and
live.
Each spring there was ' an
event which came to be known
rather cynically as "The cattle
•
market”.
, School boards from 'all over
the province would take over a
big hotel in the city. Potential
teachers would flock in by the
thousands. It was a seller's
market.
The student teacher walked
the halls, checked the signs on
doors. If he deigned to knock,
he was snatched through the
door by a principal, had coffee
or something stronger forced
on him, generally given the
• glad hand and usually assured
a job, even if "he' happened to„
be a bald female with green
teeth..
Of course, the , pay wasn't,
much then, about „ $4,000 to
start, but that was worth more
• than twice as much as it is now.
When I was hired, I wrote a
letter applying for the only
English teaching job left in the
province. The principal was on
the phone the minute he got my
letter. He couldn't believe that I
had an honor degree in Englsih.
Apparently I was the only
person left in Canada with such
a degree who wasn't teaching.
Just two years later, I had a
department headship forced on
me, I didn't particularly want
it. Ryerson Institute wanted me
to go there and teach jour-
nalism. The president of
Waterloo University wanted
me to go there and handle
public relations and teach some
English.
If., I were fired tomorrow,
with my honors degree and 15
years experience, I'd be lucky
to get a job in Nooknik,
teaching English As A Second
Language to Eskimo kids.
I checked with five of my
colleagues in the English
department, who entered
teaching 'during those halcyon
years. Three of the five were
hired by phone, sight unseen.
Now, we' sort through a vast
sheaf of applications. Here's a
guy with .a B,A., M.A., and
Ph,D. in English, Discard him.
Overeducated, no experience.
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