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children in it.

If no Kindergarten-aged chilizen
are enrolled in the program, the
organization will again be charged
the lower rates, he said.

“The board's view is let the
market place decide (if the pra-
eram ois) viable)? May said.
“There are other private pre-

ANGRY PARENTS involved in the Montessori preschool
program packed into Monday’s West Vancouver School
Board meeting and attacked the board’s plan to double the
organization's rent in 1987-88.

“ff this district isn’t willing to
consider innovative programs,
you'll have to fight private schools

By ROB
Cantibuting Weiter

and you'll lose children to other
districts,"’ one parent told the
board in an angry confrontation
during the 15-minute question
period before the regular board
meeting.

Fifty people. many of them
Montessori parents, (illed the small
board room. Montessori
spokesperson Jill Royall said the
district's classroom fee increase
from $450 per month to $900 per
month could force children to
leave the program, and _ possibly
shut the entire program down.

Royall said the increased rent
will result in’ a fee increase of
$20-25 per child enrofled in the
program. The program rents
school district rooms where 100
children aged three (o six are
taught) with alternative teaching
methods.

Superintendent Bill May said the
district has a policy of charging
organizations in competition with
the school district market rates for
space, and that the Montessori
program has Kindergarten-aged

school programs here.”’

But Royall said the program has
run in’ West) Vancouver school
space without a problem for eight
years and no reason exists to
change the rent now, after the
program has already enrolled stu-
dents for 1987-88.

During the meeting, board
chairman George Suart agreed to
organize a meeting at a future date
to speak with the Montessori
parents.