39 - Wednesday, October 16

1985 - North Shore News

ucation: how it’s changed

THE YEAR was 1836.

The Hudson's Bay Cam-
pany had outposts at such
widely separated places as
Fort St. James in the north
and Fort Langley in the
south,

Even though home and
civilization were often an
ocean and a continent apart,
the company had
demonstrated commendable
interest in the children of its
fur traders and staff
members, for in that year it
issued a dictate urging
parents to ‘‘devote part of
their leisure hours to teach
children their A B Cs and
Catechism, together with
such further elementary in-
struction as time and cir-
cumstances permit.”

This resolution, recorded
in historical documents,
represents the first known
concern for education in the

wilderness that would
become Canada’s most
westerly province 35 years
later,

B.C.'s first formal school
opened in [849 when the
Hudson’s Bay Company
posted chaplain and school-
master Rev. Robert Staines
to the small trading com-
munity that would later be
Victoria.

But because of the sparse
population and vast geo-
graphic distances, education
on Canada's west coast
received only perfunctory at-
tention until the passage of
An Act Respecting Public

Meats head the list

of weekly

. From Page 38
Slice, a thick slice of moz-
zarella (or any mild white
cheese), a dusting of Italian
seasoning and a sprinkle of
seasoning salt.

* Smear the muffins with
spaghetti sauce and top with
whatever sausage you’ve got
left from Saturday night's
party. Give them a topping of
white cheese sprinkled with
Nalian herbs and seasoning
sali.

* Slice off a good thick piece
of last night’s ham and ar-
range it on a buttered muffin.
A pineapple ring is exactly

- the right size to fit the muffin
and if you dust. the whole
business with a litte brown
sugar the kids will love von.
*And, if all else fails -
scramble some eggs with dic-

_¢d onion : (green pepper,

“mushrooms, ham or
whatever). Top with cheese
and give them a run under the
broiler. Parsley on top for
serving.

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at $4.47 (10 K.). It’s a helluva
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Schools in 1872.

This was the forerunner of
the present day School Act
which contains the laws and
provisions governing public
education.

Although education in the
20th century bears little
resemblance to the system in
place 113 years ago, history
reveals that some areas seem
remarkably similar.

For example, John Jessop,
B.C.’s first superintendent of
education (1875/76), ad-
dressed pupil-teacher ratio
and teacher entitlement by in-
troducing a salary scale for

teachers based on average at-
tendance (10-20 pupils, $50
per month; 40-50 pupils, $80
per month).

And he made provision for
an assistant teacher when
average attendance exceeded
50 pupils.

Education finance was
contentious then as well.
Jessop himself led a teacher
protest against the Victoria
school board over the issue of
salaries.

And government-school
board cost sharing was first
introduced in the late 1860s
when government grants to

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boards of $500 per teacher
had to be matched by a local
levy.

In the area of growth
change is more dramatic:

— The 534 students enrolled
in B.C. schools in 1872 swell-
ed 10 478,544 in the 1983/84
school year.

— The number of teachers in

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B.C. grew from 16 in 1872 to
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school year,

— There were only 14 schools
in 1872 while there are about
1,600 now.

— In 1872 publie education
cost $432,000 to administer.
The total of school district
gross operating budgets in
1983/84 was about $1.6
billion.

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