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BACKING INDEPENDENT BUSINESS Federal Business Development Bank Banque federate de developpement Canada h�F 1.5 Christmas Caper The children in Greg hazlitt's Grade 7 class searched for the missing signs of Christmas iu their play presented at the Brookside Christmas Concert, December 17. From the left are Zero (Dennis Park), Little Mary (Sheila Hymers), Scrooge (Kevin Webster), Jellybean (Debbie Nivins) and Bruno (Jason Cameron). (Photo by Sharon Dietz) Dorothy Wallace. was Huron trustee • from page 6 could afford. They also organized a strong union. Wallace doesn't see teacher salaries as being extremely out of line. The job is very demanding in a society where parents are taking less responsibility in the .home and discipline is less authoritative. Parents are not as supportive of teachers as they were during the times of the district school boards, says Wallace and the changes in society's value system and the way we see authority figures has resulted in more challenges to the teacher in the classroom. Teachers are also expected to upgrade themselves constantly and she marvels at their energy to be on stage in the classroom all day while taking courses on nights and weekends. There were many controversial issues during Wallace's years on the board but nothing compared that of French immer- sion. She says she received some pretty violent phone calls during the book bann- ing crisis when a group of parents wanted textbooks such as Margaret Laurence's The Diviners withdrawn from the cur- riculum. But, not even those calls compare to the abuse she took on the French immer- sion question. Wallace supported the Goderich parents who wanted French immersion establish- ed as a pilot project in a Goderich school because there were enough students to start a class. The board however decided to follow the recommendations of its ad hoc committer •which prepared an ex- haustive report on the introduction of French immersion program to Huron County schools following public hearings in the county. The committee recommend- ed no French immersion program be im- plemented at this time. The board made s Mac Campbell is • 13 �10 HELP/ ER May we recommend the FOR "PICTURE PERFECT" VIDEO RECORDINGS .01 EVERY TIME WITH SUPER SOUND TO MATCH! 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Xd :41-, :a :a Cl.�f+. ��f+. !a' 20'4 this their decision and Wallace says you learn as a trustee you have to support the board decision. She was disappointed however that a program could not be implemented as a pilot project in Goderich where it was re- quested because there were other areas of the county that did not want it. She believes it is necessary to provide the same quality of education across the coun- ty but she doesn't see that this prerequisite precludes offering a program in an area where it is requested. SPECIAL EDUCATION She admits the problems would have been difficult if French immersion had been introduced. The transportation was mind boggling and the cost almost pro- hibitive. The implementation of Bill 82, the special education programs which meet the needs of gifted and handicapped children has also cost the taxpayer. Huron County was offering one of the most ad- vanced systems in the province before the bill was' introduced but there is still work to be done on the programs in the secon- dary panel. Wallace worries whether the average child is going to be deprived as so much money is spent on programs to meet the requirements of Bill 82. A concern to all boards of education in the province is the ability of small vocal lobby groups to be successful in getting their desires met. The Huron County Board of Education does not have to dell with these groups as often as city boards do and she wonders where the demands will end. While the taxpayer is screaming about the increasing cost of education on one hand, the ethnic groups in Toronto want their board to provide heritage Camisoles, Panties, Teddies - 83?' to '35'r 1111 4;1\ 1 !1)11 1;4 )4 X1.1 44 ONTARIO ST. STRATFORD Open Daily 10 to 6 Fridays 'til 9 language classes during the school day as part of the board's curriculum. She is also critical of former Premier Williaiii Davis' decision to extend public funding to separate schools. She fears that when all the pressure groups are satisfied, the public education system will be destroyed. She disapproves of the autocratic man- ner in which the decision was made. •'It's a strange thing. in a democracy when one man can announce something will happen when it hasn't been discussed: she says. She expects the province will be forced to fund all separate schools since the Catholics have been entitled to funding in the constitution and the board can't take it away. The province has no alternative ex- cept to provide public funds to all separate and private schools. She intends to read the Shapiro report on funding of separate and private schools in the province which recommends the Ministry of Education proceed in this direction and she expects Shapiro's recom- mendations will be implemented since the three parties at Queen's ' Park already agree on the extension of funding to Catholic high schools. Wallace was disappointed she lost the election this fall and will not be returning to the board for another term, but Mary Ann Dempsey deserved to win because she worked very hard on her campaign, she says. She was pleased to see the interest in the school board election this fall and she looks back over her years on the board with satisfaction. "•I've always said my years on the board did far more good for me in the sense that it broadened my experience, than I ever did for the board." DADARTS RTS, DART BOARDS, AND ACCESSORIES FISHER DARTS 524-8483 Ude, c/ teedeossold FOR THE LADIES! MAKE-UP PIECK [Ala rmacy 524.724! 14 SHOPPERS SQUARE. 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