Dear Editor:

¢) Lam a West Vancouver resident
who is currently living in. Los

Angeles.

I was excited to find the Nosth
Shore News on the web. [ hope that
you will be able to incorporate
more of your editorial on your
(Internet) page.

The News has always been a
paper that helped instill a sense of
community in residents of the
North Shore. In that your web page
lets those of us who have temporar-
ily moved away keep up-to-date
you have helped strengthen. this
sense of community even more ata
4] time when all trends seem to lead to
he atomization of our society,

Thank you, and keep up the
good work.

Matt Grenby |
grenby @oxy.edu

Dear Editor:

Wow. How pleasantly trendy for y

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a community paper.

This (Internet) is the only medi- ‘
um in which I have no objections to [2

Doug Collins,-as everyone has the
same voice (even though they may
not be quite as eloquent). Only on
| the Internet‘can you have true free
Speech, Let’s hope that it will teach
i) us to keep ‘truly open minds. :
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olish
schoo! boards

Dear Editor:

An impression persists that our B.C, education at local level is oper-
ated by well-qualified academics who lack business acumen.

The seemingly reckless abandon with which North Shore school
boards and certain principals spend other people's money, prompts an
appeal for the abolition of all school boards.

Canadians who insist that they abhor government interference and
over-control have become aware that this is happening at a local level.

‘They are witnessing massive waste of their hard-carned tax money
through administrative duplication in a multiplicity of schoel boards,
all erying for more money for what education is all about — the chil-
dren in the classroom,

Australians have the solution —- they don't have school boards! ‘The
State Department of Education performs the following services most
efficiently, for a population about equal to B.C.'s:
¢ They select trainee teachers, many from Grade 12, and graduate them
from the teacher training college, together with some university grads
who attend for teaching skill tuition;

« Salaries follow qualification levels, all paid by the state, This elimi-
nates all unionized “raise-the-ante” board squabbling and localized
strike threats. Teachers and principals can't skip sround school areas
aboard the salary escalator, such as we see here;

° Teachers.are appointed to schools, although consideration is given to
local preference: home or away, marital status, qualification level reta-
tive to a particular school, and a teacher’s capability;

¢ Inspectors periodically evaluate. the school, the teacher in class and
the class progress with the curriculum which i is also set by the educa-
tion department;

¢ School buildings are “spartan” in design and appearance but function-
al, If building contractors price too highly, or are tardy in completion for
occupation after vacation, the department has been known to correct
these deficiencies by reverting for a time to “day labor” by the govern-
ment’s works department employees. As a consequence of the foregoing,
Australians pay no direct school taxes, no state tax, and thus far no GST.

' Enough cases have been publicized in the North Shore News to -

show that there must be a better and less expensive way to educate the
kids, without hockey ticket handouts, and loans to.a favored few by
schools competing with banks already in the lending business.
Russell C. Shelton - ;

“West Vancouver

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