a with the. North Shore ‘News Classified d advertising department, you_coul mood. An exquisite dinner at ‘the ‘Timber Club: and, im ap included. Deadline to take out an ad ‘is Thurs.; Feb; ' 13 at . Winner will be contacted Thursday afternoon. wey February 12, 1986 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 56 pages 25¢ West Van bo ard pumps new blood into schools 16 FULL-TIME TEACHING JOBS MAKE WAY FOR PART-TIME SPECIAL PROGRAM STAFF ‘SIXTEEN full-time West Vancouver teaching jobs will be lost to part-time teachers with better qualifications. After heated debate Monday night, West Vancouver School Board adopted a policy of offering continuing contracts to those tem- porary teachers with a minimum of two years teaching service in District 45. ‘In explaining his recommenda- tion, West Vancouver superin- tendent of schools Edgar Carlin. Said that though the district is overstaffed by 21.8 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers, it badly needed the services and specialized skills of teachers who have thus far been serving under part-time con- tracts. Carlin said that unless the board gave continuing contracts to part- time .workers teaching new pro- grams such as French immersion, “We will lose them. They will go elsewhere.”’ The dilemma faced by the district, Carlin said, was that some FTE positions of those teachers on leaves of absence would have to be given up to the part-time teachers with the skills now needed by the district. Without .the turnover, Carlin said, ‘‘we would be staffing our schools ‘with people who don’t have the proper background.”’ The superintendent pointed out that though the district currently had 277 teachers on continuing contracts, the district had available 270 FTE positions. He said 64 teachers were currently on various leaves of absence, 22 of whom would have-no job when and if they return. District 45 currently has 44 tem- porary teachers who make up 35.5 FTE positions, he said. Carlin recommended that 25 part-time teachers, representing 16.5 FTE positions, be added to the pool of 277 District 45 teachers who currently have continuing contracts. Those teachers currently on leave, whose services were conse- quently judged to be redundant, could choose either severance pay of five per cent per year of service or be put on a two-year recall list, Carlin said. “The minister, we hope, will also be announcing approval later this week for continuation of our early retirement program.”’ But trustee Hugh Stark voiced Opposition to the superintendent’ s recommendation. Stark said Carlin was giving a false impression that ‘‘it will. be easy to get rid of people here and that we won’t have to pay them - any money. But I think we could be facing a lot of legal problems here?’ “TI can see us getting into pro- blems here,’’ Stark said. ‘‘What you’re telling us.is to overload the system and. see what falls to the bottom. This is more than just: an, - employment situation to the teach- ers here, this is their life.’” ‘ Trustee Margo Furk ‘also disagreed with: Carlin’ s- recom- mendation. . Furk said she was against ‘setting up a policy of converting. tem- “:porary contracts to Continuing contracts based solely on time: ”