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school board aren't faring
any better, either.

Parents of students at
Glenmore and Eagle
Harbour elementaries have
Started a political fund-
raising Campaign designed to
defeat trustees who voted for
the five school closures.

And a law firm has been
hired to investigate the
possibility of launching legal
action to stop the board from
putting grade sevens into
high schools.

A core group of 50 parents
is working solidly at saving
the schools through political
pressure.

Representatives from
Glenmore and _ Eagle
Harbour along with MLA
Williams met secretly with
Vander Zalm Wednesday to
ask for a' moratorium on the
school closures.

Both the Liberals and
NDP are looking at running
strong candidates in West
Vancouver to take ad-
vaniage of the education
issue.

Many of the developments
have come to light as a result
of a secret council-of-war
meet ag- held by
Thu sday night. Speakers at
the meeting mistakenly
belicved they were speaking
in .ccret, unaware that other
parents had invited a North
Shore News reporter to
attena.

Spokesperson Norm
Davies told the group thai
the information from the
meeting “should stay within
the room and within your
immediate families.”

lt was only after
meeting discussed legal
action and the political
fundraising that they
discovered that a reporter
was in attendance.

“We feel optimistic that
we have been able to buy
some time to put more
pressure on the trustees to
reverse their decision,” said
Dale Shumka, one of the
parents who had met with
Vander Zalm Thursday.

The parents had asked
Vander Zalm for a
moratonum on the schools

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closures and had asked the
minister to strike an inves-
tigative committee to look
into the trustee’s action.

“We pointed out that the
justification appears to be to
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grade sevens,” said Shumka.

Shumka also told = the
crowd a petition had been
completed, affadavits had
been sworn and that a law
firm was waiting to file the
petition with the courts to
stop the integration of grade
sevens into the high school
system. That will not
happen, however, until the
minister decides to approve
the school closure.

According to many of the
parents, a “groundswell” of
concern over the grade
seven issue had occurred as
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“social” problems at
senior secondaries.

“J don't want to subject
my son to those types of
pressure when he is just 12
years old... . they even have
a smoking area at Sentinel,”
said one parent.

“Mr. Williams is con-
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Zalm; this was the first time
that he has seen the other
side of the issue,” said Eagle
Harbour parent Phil Baudin.

Shumka_ also told the

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take information from only
one side, he is interfering in
the decision- making of an

autonomous board,” Furk
said.
“Mr. Williams has never

spoken to the school board,
he has never spoken to our
administrators and he has
never been to a public
meeting. He does not have

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a side, it is totally inap-
propriate (to say he didn’t
see the urgency in closing
schools),” Furk said.

And what does Furk think
of a moratorium being
placed on the school
closures by the minister of
education?

“Unacceptable. It would
be government interference
with the decision-making of
an autonomous board, an
unacceptable intrusion,”
Furk said.

There has been recent
speculation, that if Williams
wasn't going to run again,
that Furk would seek the
Socred nomination.

Meanwhile, the parents’
associations are upset that
the West Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce and
the Social Credit Con-
Stituency executive who

audience that Allan Williams
did not see “the urgency” in
closing the schools.

However, when Margot
Furk, a school trustee and
West Van Social Credit
constituency president, was
contacted by the News and
she
responded with an angry
criticism of Williams.

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