Community. schools. lauded —

By uM McDOWELL

ptaised .. as.-
. unleashing, - not ‘controlling

- human. potential” . by East
University.
- education professor Jack.

Michigan

Minzey -- key. speaker at last -

weekend’s B.C. Association.
for -;Community: Education

(ACE): conference: in North
Vancouver: ml

Defining © - education as,

people
. charged Minzey,
more day. care. programs and. }
-adult courses: “When 39 per

community schools 7 - eight

in North Vancouver.
Community schools were - ee

“a force for® -

“Pre-schoolers
are

and old

urging

cent of° -B.C.’s: adults are

functionally illiterate, they
‘have a@ right. to more help,” .

. he said. .

“any: experience: that. helps —

you. deal: ‘with, -another. ex-. °
and, claiming .

perience’

“anybody - :
' Minzey. - said -
education ‘means the whole
community gets educated.”

an. teach,”

munity ~ ‘school has’ ‘six.
features: traditional: kin-
dergarten: ; to grade 12

schooling, maximum use of
facilities, ©

courses for children taught

“community :

Claimirig ‘that our com- |
munities are-oligarchies, not.

‘democracies, Minzey. ad-

. vocates breaking up this rule ©

by. .the few with

. “representative” community
; couneils. .

t

A cross-section of people

He: said. the ideal  comi= from. each . 4000-person

district is selected by

-researchers through “block

-more.~- optional -

by community people, more .

adult courses, a “brokerage”
that links people with ser-
vices, and more community

“involvement”. through
selected councils...
Minzey cited North

Vancouver's néw Seycove .

School as “a perfect example
ofa community centre that's
sometimes used’as a school.”
He claimed such a facility
cuts costs by localizing
services and . avoiding
duplication. But he admitted

school - bureaucracies will |

increase.

How these expanded

programs will be. funded is

up to each district; he said
there are aver. 4,000 U.S.
community schools because
people -think - they’re’ less

wasteful. B.C. has 36 official

club” elections or - by
“sociometric surveys”.
“Open.elections don’t work,”

“he claimed. “You always end

up with the same people in
charge.” -o

Although Minzey gave few

suggestions for improving -

traditional. schooling, his
listeners got some issues to
think about. “The biggest

problem ‘in education. is .

hypocrisy,” he said. “For
example, we stress ‘in-
volvement’ but deny parents
a chance to be more than
rubber stamps or free
labour.”

But, he told the 300-odd
delegates, “the timing is
perfect. for community
schools. Pressure for change
is coming from the futuristic
outside education; they have

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Throughout ‘the
, ference Jack Stevens. was
rec
tribution to B.C: community

schools. Stevens, principal
of North ‘Vancouver's —
Westover School, pioneered”
B.C. commutity. schools. He.

became an advocate after

studying. with Minzey in.

- Flint, Michingan .
birthplace Nor th.
‘American community
schools. =

Minzey said the results of |

Stevens’ work show that
B.C.’s community school

future is promising. B.C.'s

problem is funding.

“The Flint system ‘has
endured,”
“because it’s funded by a
philanthropist who backs

community schools like he ,

markets autos.”

Education ministry
about provincial government
support for community
schools m 1980. He. said:
“The crucial question isn’t
should we deliver children’s
social services; it’s how.” He
cited East Vancouver’s

Britannia Centre as a

“cooperative . funded”
community school
favored by the government.

Carter said he saw “no
problems for continuing a
vigorous and expanding
community school program”
for at least one year.

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