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10 - Sunday, January 19, 1986 - North Shore News

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- MONEY from the. Mothers’ “March has provided Ryan Dodson, 10, with a wheelchair to help him get around, including a

_ Mothers’ March needs volunteers. .

- visit. to Maplewood Farm. Volunteers Gerda Dodson (ia the background) and Beth Lawrence (in- front) say that the

Boards get tax go-ahead

“THE Ministry of Education plans to allow school
_boards to raise additional revenues beyond those
“included i in their basic fiscal framework.

Addressing a Monday ©
‘night. West Vancouver

School Board. meeting,
‘school~ board secretary
treasurer John Cassey told
‘trustees . the - ministry. . had

‘notified West’ Vancouver's :
District 45 of its intention to ~

-amend the Education Fi-
‘nance Act early in the .spr-
ving.

“In quoting from: a Jan. 3

“ministry. letter, Cassey said
: the proposed

legislation
“will revoke: the authority of

othe minister. to issue direc-.

“remove the requirement to

hold referenda’ to authorize
: additional expenditures.””

vided.

* Boards ‘wishing to raise
monies beyond those pro-

in .each. district’s
shareable operating budget
can do so through local resi-
dential taxation if the pro-
posed legislation is adopted.

The cost of education in
B.C.’s 75 school. districts is
currently borne approx-
imately 60 per cent by pro-
vincial' and 40 per cent by

municipal governments.

EFFECT UNKNOWN

:. tives controlling ‘the. size.of 6.

“school. ‘board: budgets and

legislation would affect West

Vancouver’s District. 45, °
which is facing a projected. |

Buy ‘one case of

As to how this proposed ‘

$164,000 budget deficit “for
the 1986-87. school’ year,
‘Cassey said after the meeting
that until the legislation was
passed and until details of
that legislation were known,
“we can’t really say what the
effect will be.”

No ceiling on the amount
of revenue that can be raised
by. school boards was in-
dicated in the ministry’s let-
ter.

Since 1983, ‘school boards

hy ETE

_ boards

nave been restricted,
budgets brought down’ by

the education ministry. Any.

extra expenditures have,
since then, required school
to go
referenda.

The major ‘reason for
West Vancouver’s budgetary
deficit. stems from ' the
district having 46 more stu-
dents in the school system

than was originally budget- ..

ted for.

to public

School activities
decrease slammed

EXTRA-curricular activities are the life blood of
school students, West Vancouver School Board

has been told.

Executive director of B.C.
School Sports (BCSS) Don
Steen gave a presentation to
school trustees Monday,
emphasizing the importance
to overall school health of
extra-curricular activities.

He also registered his per-
sonal disappointment in the
pounding those activities had
taken recently as a pawn in
the education battles be-
tween teachers and the B.C.
Ministry of Education,

_ ACTIVITIES ESSENTIAL

- “The opportunity to par-
ticipate ir: extra-curricular
school activities is essen-
tial,’’? Steen said. ‘‘They are
really the other half of
education.” :

School sports, he said,
made .up the major percent-
agc of those schoo! activi-
ties. ;

The motivation to get stu-

dents involved in school ac-"

tivities differed from student

to. parent, Steen said, but
both sets of motivations had
equal validity.

For students, motivations
range from developing skills
to cultivating status to hav-
ing fun,

CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Asa parent; Steen said, he .
looked at school activities as -

»a.way-for his: children to:
“develop adress code, to

-Jearn to play by the rules,
and to develop acceptance of
defeat without losing
motivation. ‘

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Narration in a subsequent

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According to the narra-
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The cost of sports and
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