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ALTERNATE SCHOOL PROGRAM

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West Vancouver
elementary school principals
are preoccupied with
“getting warm bodies and
keeping them,” for their
schools. .

This accusation was made
by Daphne Trivett at the
West Vancouver School
Board meeting Monday
night when the ‘board met
with a delegation from the
Pauline Johnson Alternate
Primary Program.

The primary program

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offers an alternative, multi-
age, family group system of

education for students from

Grades 1 to 3.

Trivett told the meeting
that in the past principals
have balked at sending
students home with  in-
formation leaflets about the
alternate program.

She said principals feel
they risk losing students and
see the leaflets as a “raid” on
their student numbers.

West Vancouver Superin-
tendent of Schools Ed Carlin

protested the idea that
principals would block the
information ‘seems _in-
credible” and asked Trivett
to tell him of specific cases
where this has happened. ~

Trivett admitted that there
have been no incidents this
year when principals refused
to pass on information to the
students for. their parents but

maintained that it has
happened in past years.
Carlin pointed out that

education is to serve the

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children and suggested that
interference by principals in
the alternate program would
be “highly unethical.”

Dr. G.B. Purves rep
resenting parents concerned
with the Alternate Primary
Program (APP) told the
school board declining
enroliment in schools has
put pressure on the APP and
parents are concerned that
the program may not be able
to continue.

Purves asked for the
board’s support to maintain
the program and to suggest
solutions to the problem of
attracting children for the
program.

Purves said that many of
the information handouts
that are sent home with
children are “shoved under
the kitchen sink” and there 1s
a problem with getting in-
formation on the program to
interested parents.

Purves suggested adding
the kindergarten level to the
program but Carlin said that
modifications to the
program as it stands are the

key to attracting more
students.

Carlin told the APP
parents that first they should
consider changing “that
hippy. pervert word
‘alternate”’ saying it comes

from an outdated trend of
the early seventies.

But Trivett said as one of
the original parents in
establishing the program she

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is “burnt out” and feels that
now the board should take

over responsibility for
changing the name and
keeping the program alive.

Acting Chairman Lilian
Theirsch pointed out the
APP has “full board support".

Carlin said the board is not
“cold and calculating” over

the number of students in the
program and in the past has
given the APP the “benefit
of the doubt’’’ when
enrolment has not reached
the required levels.

Theirsch ended the
discussion assuring the APP
delegation again of board
support.

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