Doug Collins @ get this straight ® 9F VANCOUVER School Board’s decision to recruit paying students from the far places has put me off my diet. if t's extra money they're after, why don’t they go into the bed and breakfast business, t00? It would make as much SCTESC. According to BoM Carlin, the boss bureaucrat for West Van schools who is doing most of the gabbing on this subject, these ad- ditions to the classrooms will be paving the whole cost af thei education and perhaps a bit more. Ralderdash, TFhenezer! Such Statements are made to soothe the suffering taxpayer's indignant breast, and the board that seems to Gtke ifs orders fron Carlin are plaving the West) Vannies for suckers. Who tid this fiddled idea in the first place P don’t know, but toy fist of suspects would include bureaucrats who think their diminishing empire can be pro- pped up by such means, teachers who think that) keeping their Highly paid jobs is even more in portant than waging war on South Africa, and officials of the ministry of education who have the dippy notion that if only we can get foreigners to fork out $43,500 a year per student, the rest of us can eat for free. It is also possible, of course, that what we are seeing is a rare cxample of the education industry itt all levels closing ranks against the facts of life. Just like the musk-ox,. J always thought that the pur- pose of a school district was to educate the kids in thie district. if F the number of aviitable kids is on- ly balf of what it was a few years aga, so whace? Reduced numbers should mean that we need half the schools and half the teachers, with the result that we need pay only half the faxes and can all live hap- pily ever after, in West Van, friends, there are § now 4,900) students. These are taught by 270 ceachers costing an average of well over $38,000 each for 200 days’ work per annum, and any move co keep all that vo- ing when the Jocal) population doesn't warrant it is nothing less than subversive. We certainly don’t need the school board to go roaming and peering around the world looking for more kids. Not even paying kids. For, as elucidated above, that will turn out to be a seam, just: like atl other such hare- brained manipulations, and once we're landed with it we won't be able to get rid of it. - » Correction’ - Notice in our Hot Weather Sale - flyer sale dated July 9-12, the Childrens Snow:Suits featured on pages 4&5 ‘will not be available’ ‘in time: for the sale, -rain- checks will be issued but some colours & styles may not be available ex- actly as shown. We apologize for any in- convenience this may have caused our customers. Any move too stop a would cause Ge buneh oof Tunaites and lucre-losiae daw vers to eo around velling that the Charter of Rights is being violdted. Or claiming that a school board that wants fo con. fine students to the glories of their own edbeation systems, Hany, is fit only for Pariah Corral, There’s no himit toe the tantasies being generated by Carlin and Co. Heaths, for instance. about the contrachiyg of education services “reaching into the millions of dotlars”’ To repeats it will reach into our pockets, that’s what, because the plot ts obviously to maintain statt aban unnecessarily lish level, Heoaiso states that students coming into the system sll have aninterest. in’ furthering their knowledge of English and Western culture. Oh? That deesm’t imele my stoney old heart one little bit. Phas the West) Van School Board SUMMER ” TRENDSETTER 158 E. 2nd N. Van. 985-1512 This location only. Offer Expires Juiy 34/86 | become a philanthropic organiza. tion? Eso. why doesn't it register as such under the Societies Act so that we of the great unwashed know where we're at with it? If voutre tuned in to the signals In these ouratlers, you will tecognize that the reference to “furthering Knowledge of Poglish and Western culture’ is shore thand fot scooping in large numbers of Asiities, And to my way of thinkin we dou t need any mare Chinese Pestalenes, Kimberles Sehool pustriet has abo embarked oon this) dumb course, and se far, every: inquiry thesve had has been from Hong Kong, which is anvious te move here en mitsse. Atthe rate things are going, the people who will be interested: nm obtaining some knowledge of Enelish and Western culture will be ws. [ts time toask the school boiud worthies whether they said thes would do this sort of had. hunting when they were elected. tmay have a bad memory, but | don't recall their saying 2 single syllable about it. | IS HERE! July Perm Special $ 60° i nciuces cut) Reg. Value $70-$75 Get that carefree new look now. 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