A28 - Sunday, May 6, 1984 - North Shore News

AT NORTH VAN MEETING

‘- Most pan proposal
for new grad rules

A PANEL from the Ministry of Education came to
the North Shore Thursday, evening to listen to a
large gathering of parents, teachers and politicians,

responding to the province’s White Paper on
Secondary School Graduation.

By BILL BELL

And while some came to
the Carson Graham Secon-
dary gym to praise the plan,
the majority came to pan the
proposal, calling it a ‘‘sham
and a scam.”’

Paddy Boyle, representing
the staff at Sentinel Senior
Secondary called the White
Paper, ‘‘woefully ill-
conceived,’’ while others
strongly attacked the stream-
ing aspects of the proposal
and the changes to the grade
11 requirement for Physical
Education.

The largest applause went
to Crawford Kilian, a former
School Trustee and presently
an instructor at Capilano
College, who praised some
aspects of the proposal but
slammed the provincial
government for playing
politics with the school

system.

‘‘I believe its purpose is
purely political, and I now
use the word with all its
negative, manipulative
connotations.

‘‘Its purpose is to create
the appearance, not the reali-
ty, of ‘more challenge,’ of
‘raising standards’, of getting
back to the basics,’ so that
essentially the ignorant part
of the public will feel, dimly,
that something positve is be-
ing done. The White Paper,
like the New Reality from
which it springs, is a sham
and a scam,"* said Kihan.

The discussion paper pro-
poses that students entering
grade 11 in September 1985
would be subject to new
graduation requirements.

Students would be stream-
ed into an organized struc-
ture that ‘‘provides students
with the opportunity to select
a major area of study and to

CRAWFORD KILIAN
... draws applause

have that major recognized
on the graduation Certificate
by meeting certain
requirements.”

Three majors are propos-
ed: Arts and Science, Applied
Arts and Science, and Career
Preparation.

Other changes would see
all students being required to

complete at least one course
in Mathematics and one
course in Science during their
senior secondary years.
Physical Education would
become an elective program
rather than a required one.
Language offerings will be

expanded to include Chinese.

and Japanese, and the
number of courses required
for graduation will be in-
creased from J2 to 13.

One of the few people to
praise the discussion paper
was North Vancouver School
trustee Ross Regan who said
he was particularly pleased
with the Career Preparation
aspect of the proposal.

‘‘For those students who
plan a more immediate career
through direct entry to
employment or further train-
ing at a college or Provincial
Institute, there are now in-
creased opportunities in the
Career Preparation programs
for students to gain. ex-

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