6 - Friday, October 11, 1985 - North Shore News

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Turn it on

e congratulate Vancouver City coun-

cil for approving’ Vancouver’s own

‘Ted Hght district and moving hookers
from Mount Pleasant to the area between fifth
and second avenues. Thirty thousand dollars
will be spent on lights which will glow red when
turned on; if they could get the Johns to do
the same even the dilemma of soliciting would
be solved. /

Now that the new area is permanent, the
hookers can relax in their new home and
start putting more effort into it. Like tran-
sient renters who have finally purchased a
new home, they can take money and trouble
with furnishings and decor enough to rival
the famed Amsterdam district which is as big
a tourist attraction as it is serious business.

And Vancouver’s red light district, being
nice and close to the Expo site should reaily

boost business. If the. Bennett government
ean start taxing the proceeds, Expo could be -

more of a winner than anyone dreamed.
Vancouver is a big city now. Like it or not
the government and taxpayers are involved
in the seamy side of life. Tax dollars support
_VD.centres and a new AIDS centre — both
byproducts of an’ increasingly promiscuous -
society, just: as the. growing hooker problem

"Ws time we accepted the fact that hookers
won't go away. There is no immorality on
the part of city council in setting up the new
district — it is the immorality of the taxpay-
ing citizens by day, johns by night that
causes those lights to glow.

Music mistake.

HE CRC, usually a bastion of the staid,
has made @: truly. bonehead’ decision. ©
L CRC’s top'brass, obviously in need of
2,2 £00 polish, have decided to dump jazz and.
classical pr programs in favor of shows featuring ©

of charge ‘on-commer-
ar tations but. hey: should be used to pro-.- :

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980-0511 |

FACE IT DEAR,
SUMMERS OVER.

Dear Editor:

Alex Davids correctly calls
for more objectivity in assess-
ing the role played by com-
munist planners in Southern

. Africa, and he accurately

identifies a major problem
area when he writes of ‘‘black

‘independence from white
; ‘minorities, ”

: “That same term was used as

fe a rallying cry by politicians in

Dear Editor: .
.. Over 85 studies have been
completed on class. size in

“schools '. and yet there is no
_consensus from all

this
research. For the record, here

yin B.C, funding is’ “provided
on the basis of one teacher
“for every 25 to 27 students in
- the ‘elementary schools and

one teacher for every 22 to 24
students in secondary schools

¢ based on the population of

the school district. Within
that funding formula, the ac-
tual class sizes in each school
vary according to the
priorities that are set by each

Missing
lanes

DUE TO a typographical er-
ror, a key line was omitted
from Noel Wright’s Wednes-
day FOCUS column ‘‘Good
try, Zoltan, but...!””

The second sentence of the
fifth paragraph should have
read as follows:

“This would leave a 35 ft
wide pavement which could
be divided into two 10ft
lanes and two 7ft 6in lanes
separated by lightweight bar-
riers."

We apologize for any con-
fusion caused to readers.

countries to the north and east
of South Africa, it was also
used to justify the radical
social changes that reduced
many countries to permanent
poverty and civil unrest when
stability and prosperity left in
the forin of dispossessed and
disillusioned emigrants.
Under no circumstances can
the denial of basic human
rights be condoned, yet it is

school board. I suggest that
we should direct our energies
toward an examination of
what parents want from the
school system instead of
debating the class size issue.

’
,

Some years ago, a writer in
Trends, Clare Burstall ex-
pressed it very well when he
said, ‘‘If there is one message
that emerges loud and clear
from a review of class-size
research .,. it must surely be
that there is little further to
be gained from focusing on
the mere number of pupils in
a class, from carrying out

understandable that | white
South Africans fear and reject
the concept of a new political

“order that would provide ne

permanent guarantee of.
minority. rights.

Democracy does not make .

independence available to any
specific segment of a country’s
population on racial grounds,
it encompasses and protects all

citizens and guarantees ‘in- -

crude measurements of.

achievement, or. from at-.
tempting to study in isolation
features of the learning en-
vironment that are meéan-
inglessly torn from their con-
text. We need to concentrate
our enquiries‘on the quality
of classroom life, the effec-
tiveness or otherwise of par-
ticular styles of teaching,
considered in context and
evaluated in relation to the
goals being sought. To do
this we need to develop,
above all, more sensitive and
imaginative means of
measuring a broad band of

: dividual rights 3 and freedoms. .

. ‘The South African situation .
is far from being es have

haye to fides in, concessions, —
P. du Plessis /

North ee :

wliona outcomes.’
/ Here in: North Vancouver,

we have a good school system.

and it can -be even better

when parents are involved as

equal partners in the educa- -
tion of. the children... The ;
education report ‘‘Let’s Talk
About’ Schools’? . contains

many ideas for further.im-

provements to the school :
system and you can obtain :
your copy by phoning. the
school or the School Board
office.

Ross Regan

School Trustee

North Vancouver

Required information
incursion of privacy

Dear Editor:

The Provincial Voters’
cards contain spaces for my
Social Insurance Number and
the date of my birth, both
questions which I consider to
be an incursion of my privacy.
The municipality of Rich-
mond cards also request this
information.

Prior to starting this letter,
I typed a letter to MP Reg
Stackhouse to see how far his
Bill C-245 has progressed in
the House. Bill C-245 is a Bill
to discourage people who have

no right to ask for this
number,

The Social Insurance
Numbers were introduced to
be used only for the sole pur-
pose of collecting/administer-
ing the Canada Pension Plan.
Of course it should be used to
administer the Old Age Securi-
ty payments and the collecting
of Unemployment Insurance
premiums and the paying out
of claims, otherwise some peo-
ple could collect under several
names.

For those deluded souls
who find nothing wrong with

giving out this personal infor-
mination to every Tom, Dick
and Harriett who asks for it,
I would remind them that we
lost a great number of brave
people in all our wars. They
died fighting to retain the
freedoms too many people are
bent on taking away from us,
@ sliceata time.

In such spaces we should
print MYOB. How. about
phoning the people who com-
pile the voters’ lists at
660-6348, and telling them so?
Dorine Munn Mclver
Richmond