ON THE OTHER HAND

‘A CHAP (this chap) is daily
surprised thai anyone is
surprised — in this case
about the monster salaries
and benefits paid to school
administrators and to a lot
of teachers,

Forgive the lac#. of modesty :
but it was years ago while working
for what is now, Wimp Major that
your humbie servant first drew at-
tention to what was going on,
especially in North Vancouver’s
‘District 44,

At the time, administrators
money had hit what then looked
like the unreal level of $75,000.

In the universities professors
were getting increases of up to
$8,000 in a single year while a few
of them were so busy
moonlighting that they didn’t have

‘Single-parent
home lacking
‘in structure

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Nappers panicked, released
Kilbum, and went on an ill-fated
shopping spree, ending up at West
Vancouver’s Park Royal shopping
centre. They were all arrested

+. within hours.
Last March, all the kidnappers
were sentenced. Mastermind 22-
year-old Chad Mulvahill received

. allife sentence.

Christian Snelgrove, 21 at the
time, netted a 23-year prison
term. The three youths involved
all received the maximum three-
year custodial senience.:

The youth appealing his
: Semtence had been responsible for
guarding Ms. Kilburn during her

, captivity and obtaining the hand-
gun used in the kidnapping.

The youth’s lawyer mounted a

spirited defence in the original
trial. He claimed that the handgun
was an infatuation encouraged by
television.

The ‘trial judge referred at
length to Kilburn’s statements, in-
cluding passages in which her cap-
tors were described as being ‘‘very
pleasant”’ and ‘‘very kind.”’

There was little doubt that she
had been very frightened at the
time. —

But the three-judge appeal
court rejected Rankin’s argument
by ruling that secure custody was
essential to. the offender’s
rehabilitation. .

The trial judge noted that the
. youth, 16 at the time of the kid-
‘napping, came from a_ single-
parent home lacking in structure
.and guidance

He was formerly a poor but
bright student, but is now making
good progress and is expected to
complete his Grade. 12 this
December,

“A major rehabilitation pro-
gram was necessary to save the
youth from a life. of crime,”
noted the appeal court. ‘

'- The youth had a record of two
previous offences of theft and
possession of a narcotic.

lime to give any lectures.

There followed the usual cries:
“Untair,”’ ‘distorting reality,"
“immense responsibilities of
senior staffs,"’ “you don’t know
what you're talking about,” etc.

The juggernaut rolled on. Bill
Bennett couldn't stop it, not even
with his restraint program.

Bill Vander Zalm couldn't stop
it, even thuugh he made the right
noises and challenged the B.C,
Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and
its screaming supporters at a
public mecting.

Later, the Socreds were dumb
enough to give teachers the right
to unionize. Stecred them in the
union direction, in fact, by refus-
ing job protection to those who
might have stayed in associations.

Anything for a quiet fife.

The radicals in the BCTF won
every battle, and the school
boards lost every battle. Which
was to be expected, seeing that the
boards don't know the meaning of
the word ‘‘fight’’ and were heavily
infiltrated by teachers and the rel-
atives of teachers.

Allin the family, sort of thing.
“You scratch my back and I'll
scratch yours,”’ — across board
boundaries, since teachers are not
allowed to be on boards in their
own districts.

Even where there were no un-
cles and aunts, brothers and
sisters, or ltusbands and wives on
the boards they were weak.

The BCTF would make a
breakthrough in Nanaimo, for in-
stance, and everyone else collaps-
ed and gave the same terms,

“Staad and deliver,” said the
BCIF, And the Loards delivercd.
Anything for a quiet life.

Every time te fat-cat teachers

pocketed more of the taxpayers’
dollars, the fatter-cat ad-
Ministrators got an even bigger
share.

The Mafia couidn’t have put on
a better performance. And Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Blow didn't go on
the rampage, They paid up every
bit as ineekly as shopkeepers pay-
ing protection money.

So | was surprised when David
Schreck surprised everyone by
ripping into the administrators.
But why did he sing?

One reason, obviously, was that
the administrators are no longer in
the teachers’ unions. Even the
BCTF bashes them. But the rot is
right through the system. And it
will continue,

}am waiting for Schreck to ad-
vocate a freeze on all school
salaries and the outlawing of all
school strikes. Unless he does that
— and I’m not holding my breath
~~ his fulminatious aren't worth a
powder puff.

in the meantime, the NDP is
thinking about (if that is the right
term) a reduction in the school

‘year from 190 days to 181.

Pretty soon it'll be a half-hour,
one-day week with no reduction
in take-home pay, and don’t
forget you read it here first.

How about a food bank for
ICBC administrators who are paid
$135,600 a year?

Don't laugh, in this liberal
world of ours nothing is impossi-
bie.

The Robyn Allan affair has to
be the best bad joke of the cen-
tury, It boggles the jolly old mind.

Is there anywhere else in the

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world where one of the worst
drivers in the world would be ap-
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surance corporation?

Js there anywhere else in the
world where the public would be
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By this standard, it shoufdn’t be
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as bank presidents,

Why did no one think to check
what sort of driver she was?
Because NDP affirmative action
policies and gender and politics
come first, chat’s why.

Things will get worse before
they get better. Just mark this
chap’s wo rtis.

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