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Critics

of

teachers

ignore

complexities

Dear Editor:

I am a teacher. Conse-
quently I have listened to and
read with great interest the
advice provided me by
numerous citizens on how I
ought to fulfil my obligations
to my students, in the event
that ] am asked to withdraw
my services or to honour a
picket line. Yet it seems to me
that the issue is somewhat
more complicated than is in-
dicated by those who have so
far had a great deal to say on
the subject. In fact, as I see
it, | have a number of obliga-
tions. I clearly have that of
continuing to provide my
students with the opportunity
to continue their education
without interruption.
However, I also have a con-
flicting obligation to do what

Up, down
zoning
illogical

Dear Editor:

The construction of a five-
storey apartment building on
five of the properties adja-
cent to John Lawson Park is
not the solution to the pro-
blem of the waterfront
owners.

If West Vancouver council
accepts recommendations to
extend the Sea Walk through
the two lots it presently owns
at the foot of 18th Street,
behind these five homes and
along the north boundary of
John Lawson Park (thus
allowing full use of that park
and waterfront by the
public), the owners of these
five properties should then be
free to renovate or rebuild
with their PRESENT duplex
zoning. Alternatively, with
the potential loss of a part of
Ambleside Park, maybe these
homes should be purchased
for future parkland.

lt seems only yesterday we
had public hearings to down-
grade cxisting high rise sites.
Within such a short time are
we now going to upzone cx-
isting low rise sites on the
waterfront?

Rthe! Van Epp
West Vancouver

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I can to protest the
dismemberment of an educa-
tional system upon which
they and those who follow
them must depend. And since
most of them will become
workers in this province, I
have an obligation to do what
I can to ensure the survival of
rights won for them by
workers in the past.

I conceive that I have a
deep obligation to strive to
preserve for them a system of
unions, which, while by no
means perfect, are currently
undergoing an attack by a
government which appears
determined to reduce them to
the status enjoyed by unions
in Poland, the Phillipines and
South Korea, all in the aid of
attracting investment by cor-
porations which do not like
to be inconvenienced by
unions. Finally, I believe I
have an obligation to set an
example to my students in
refusing to be cowed by a
bully who threatens to
eliminate my livelihood if |
choose to act upon principle.

Faced with such conflicting
obligations to my students
and my fellow citizens, I have
made my choice. It has not
been easy. Indeed, I retain
respect for those few of my
colleagues who, on principle,
have chosen in the opposite
direction. I do, however,
wonder at the pomposity of
those who, not having to

Strike power is fast

Dear Editor:

Has B.C a New Spirit, a
New Constitution, a New
Charter of Rights?

We shall continue to be
governed by a duly elected
legislature, but its enactments
involving labour, human
rights or education will be
monitored by a group of
labour unions and affiliates
called ‘‘Solidarity’’. The
legislature will enact the laws
but if Solidarity does not ap-
prove they will be revised or
simply not enforced. In-
evitably, to avoid unseemly
conflict, the cabinet will first
inquire whether a proposed
bill will receive the necessary
approval. Solidarity’s source
of power is clear and direct.
If the government does not
comply with its views a series
of strikes will prostrate the
economy and close the
schools.

Not to worry about the
legislature. Recently we have
been shown how that body
can be controlled and how
any arguments of the opposi-
tion can be silenced. When its
chatter becomes tiresome, let
it be promptly be stilled by
closure and its leader exiled.
Close the House in times of
stress.

We are awaiting further in-
formation as to how Solidari-
ty will function. Like all new

make the decision them-
selves, shoulder the respon-
sibility of pontificating on
how I must make mine, and
who do so in a way which
quite ignores the complexity
of the situation.

M. Burbidge
North Vancouver

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learned last week that the ma-
jority of our teachers are
quite unaware of, or prefer to
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Rule of Law and Parlimen-
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of the strike is quicker and so
they will teach the children.

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West Vancouver

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