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NORTH SHORE News reporter Surj Rattan interviews Grade 12 students at North Vancouver's Carson
Granam Secondary School, where he graduated from 10 years ago. Rattan returned to the schoo! this month
te see if, and how, education has changed since the time he was a studeat.

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FROM STUDENTS
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By SURS RATTA
News Reporter

TEN YEARS ago this month I
walked out the doors of North
Varcouver’s Carson Graham Sec-
ondary School as a Grade i2
graduate unsure of what he was
going to do with the rest of his
life.

Earlier this month I returned to
my Alma Mater to find that the
school has not changed much
physically during the past decade,
but that student attitudes and
school courses have changed, in
some cases dramatically.

And, according to Carson
Graham vice-principal Len Slade,
today’s student is expected to turn
in a better performance than what
was expected of my generation.

“*1 think the students today are
brighter,” says Slade. ‘! believe
there is more pressure on the kids
today if they want to continue
their education past the high
school levzl. There’s much more
stress today.”

While it wasn’t easy to get into
university 10 years ago, the re-
quired grade point averages and
marks were lower then than those
needed now.

In today’s education system, a
high school student needs at least
a B-average to enrol in one of
B.C.’s three major universities.

Ten vears ago students who had
average or slightly less than
average marks could take transfer
programs at North Vancowver’s
Capilano College, and then,
depending on their marks, transfer
Lo a university.

But while that route is still open
to students, it is not as easy to get
into Capilano College today as it
was a decade ago.

College president Douglas Jar-
dine says the college is more selec-
tive about the high school students
it accepts and chooses those with
highest grades over those with
average marks.

Students’ values have also seen

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changes over the past decade.

Ten years ago the word ‘en- e N
vironment’ was foreign to us and A ° e
ecological concerns were low in - omnutnily Secathalinlinaedt
our system of values. Foitnons fngour C ~ e

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