22 — Sunday, September 21, 1997 — North Shore News

Signalling

GOING back to school -
... Was always my favorite
. time of the year when I

. i] rejoiced because holidays . :
of any duration were-a tough :.

call around our house. The - :
step-father regarded them ‘as

a big waste of time, which to “

hi y

g anid a'picnic, maybe
ven sleep out under the

but that was « ‘occasional:

we’ seemed to be get-
: winter wood-pil

C “irposed a
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22nd .
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-"school-work, most of it, and I

did have some time with my
friends at recess, and maybe

-y walking home after school;

Winters, we got a little
more unstructured time

_ because we carried our lunch-
es. It was too darn cold to go _

back and forth twice when.
the ‘temperature was well
below zero. That heightene

‘dom. .
In those days we didn’t.

jay our own working materi-

4als. Cur. pens, pencils and

Ch lub? Monday, Wednesday,

Friday «: 45:
Ca iano Mall, food: court.

Legal information ‘for
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hs feeling of temporary frec-: :

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what we called “scribblers,”

as well as the erasers, were all
provided to us. Kemember?
And you'd be very tidy start-
ing with your new scribbler,
using your ruler to underline
in all the expected places. By
the middle pages you’d more
or less got over that, and
sloppy setin: |.

The teacher often put a
lot of stuff on the black-
board, too — poems we had
to “learn by heart,” and long
lines of adding and subtract-:
ing and times tables.
Remember?

When we had finished
copying, we “sat in position,
which meant we put our. nui-

’ sance hands behind our backs
and leaned against them to
keep them out of mischicf
until the teacher had thought

of something else to do.

That was still the normal
drill when I myself became a
‘school-marm in the late thir-

”

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Table. a
Harbour
2474.

tennis, Silver

Centre,

Tennis for seniors aged 55
” years of. age ‘and older.
North Shore- locations. 9
a.m.-1 Pm Info: - 988-
2359.” . .

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Volunteers are
« Silver,-- Harbour
Info: 980- 2474.

- Seniors? - One-Stop Line.
Call for.information about

Centre.

health, housing, transporta-.

tion, support groups, meal
"programs, — financra

'3 p.m. 983- 3303.

eh, Info cal 980-2 at

Scamp
month. 1-3: p.m. Silver

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legal ' issues... Weekdays~9 ;

_ beginner level.

‘Monday . of. each -

ties, but I have a sneaking
hunch times have changed.

The newspaper apprised -
me the other day that in
these magic times every child
starting in Grade } is
equipped with a computer.
Nobody is subjected to times
tables. Nobody worries about
dates and pen-nibs and
crasers, ae nobody
writes anything down.

Why take Ai
use up all those pen-nibs
when the computer is right
hand and has the answer in
a flash?

It scares the daylights out
of me: :
I see it as the end of per- : :

sonal communication not as’ *

an extension of the same, ) *

which I thought was what we:

were working toward all
these centuries.
Extension of knowled es
es, marvellous, but for
benefit ‘of all It must be

Harbour Centre. Donations .

te city. library juniors. Info
Faith Sagar, 985- 3580.

Seniors’. Eveniifi
Program.” |.

dinner, four. venings'
week in the’ company of:

‘others. North Shore’ Home:

Support | Services,

6002.

926-2730.
Dancing

Instruction" Seared’ :
and swing. Sing)
ples of all ages:
‘Tuesdays 7-9:30 pmat West
Vancouver. Seniors’ Center,
695 21st: St. Me ay.

-$3.75, $5.35 for non-mem-

bers. Info: 925-7280. ;

. with his fingers on the. but-

' bility and friendship an

that time and _

Ballroom *

shared, surely, with the

_ world. And all I can imagine

is ail those little kids, cach tive. As a result the world will:
be awash with hopeful.
tons, searching for com au change in no ime.
exchange from a machine. a

On the other hand, and:- on
this is the more likely version,
this Command of a machine
surely elevates the child’s i
confidence and challenges his: ~.

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