Doug COLLINS _ WATCHING “A culture being : shoved down the drain can Ihe interesting. Thus, according to some real estate contacts of mine, more and more whites ure getting out of Vi ancouver and moving to the suburbs, They have fo if they want their ; kids to learn English. Much the samc thing i is happen: ing in most of our major cities, of course, but it's worse in Vancouver becatise Asia is’ ‘Mooding in, en- couraged t by.those wonderful folk in Ottawa and also by the Socreds, ~ who can’t even shout as loud as a_- mouse ‘where speaking out against - this invasion is concerned. - ‘ » * What brings all this to mind is a, series in the Evening Wimp called Crisis in Class, an examination of “ "what is going on in the Vancouver “schools. 9! ye : yo Qe e ee At Churchill « _ -, Secondary,. the main ‘language is Cantonese. Teachers considered °. requesting thai, only English be used in the = ° corridors. They decided : = against it,-ho wever, ‘which. .was just as well, a seeing. that:the request - , | ; \ inguage), and more than half of a ‘students have a mother tongue ° ul : | that is not English? This stuff makes the bilins. gualism threat look, puny. . “It's a nightmare, None of the , teachers was quoted as 5: any Ages! “At Churchill Secondary he.mai language is Cantonese. Teachers “considercd requesting that only?) English be used in the corridors,” They decided against it, However, which was just assvell. the request would hav waste of time. At Hastings Elementaty al parent.observed, '‘They don*t.c celebrate Easter. T ‘hey celebrate Chinese New Year's and sing East. Indian songs. My boys “eight and haven’ teven } a Night. ” ait you think that. the Wh Press wanis to doi is aie Canada. Ststands'tor i its own : ied as “racist.” School fee policy urged WEST to write a policy on student fees to replace the current haphazard ianner in’which fees are levied at s Monday meeting. / Trustee George Suart) ‘had asked the “superintendent to, prepare.a report on secondary $chaol fees at the board's last meeting, and when he saw the figures, Suart said they * Jacked a pattern, “How are . fees levied?" Suart asked. * Assistant superingendent Doug Player said fees were levied if stu- , -dents consumed work, materials which could: not be passed on to future students, But Suart said this was inconsistent, / Player said: it’ was /common for " elementary teachers to pay for ma- “terials out of their pockets, but trustee Michacl Smith ? definitely had to stop, _ # demise, for fear of being zo “a "So the thriist of the series Ws : upbeat Multicull is wonderful and the New Look i is. a cause for Sele: Me would: have’ been a waste: i ‘bration, a} "surge in Third. World immigration yo dast year and chat the figures have : been updated. The same thing was going‘on 10 years’ago, much to the dismay of the sc nol board | of that ‘Today,-however, there is n peep out of the school board. : very meinber has ‘been bullied or” rainwashed into accepting the! situation with silence. _ Thus do’ civilizations whither. he cost and inconvenience of. ‘ this ‘‘unprecedented deluge’? to} local and provincial taxpayer are): ‘Thus an East Indian woman. “from South Africa who is involved ~ in the-multicult industry at-UH : delivers herself of this wisdom: ‘What. we've got in Vancouver: e.world in'one city, I's become “ exciting,. cosmopolitan . . 4 "becoming elvilized,” She must agree with Benno.” oF tiesen thal we were siivages untit 8s recently. The reporters even found y pro- ‘fessor who “proves"* that im: . “migrants | py more taxes than they use in social services, Of course: What else would it professor pro “ye? me ‘There are teachers who bitterly “oppose this Onslaught, but one will hear nothing from'them.: The lef. BCTF applaud it. His not only © hav “they are dedicated to the, iminution’ of English Canada: i BSL creates jobs, and that's good. -enough for them. tog Anyone, for the Falklands e. wo'years, but:part ofthe research 1ust be done i in the ng the i World: ‘was named along “ witty 18 other: Canadians: as/a r¢ reci- wor h VANCOUVE R: School. Board directed its superintendent | said. that sata oa em eh mae DRAPES . _ PERSIAN RUGS Q - Wednesday, June 29, W488 ~ North Shore jNews } INTERIORS = JTS “BLINDS . ~ REUPHOLSTERY VERTICAL BLINDS 7 MINI-BLINDS. "MICRO PLEATED SHADES eg, ABBEY ULTRA’ MINI THE FINEST. “SINGLE CONTROL BLIND IN THE UNIVERSE! reg. 22. 00: ] 6 SITE 48x48"! a “;, VISIT OUR STORE AND VIEW ~ OUR SELECTION OF FINE . PERSIAN & ORIENTAL RUGS, i LOWESY PRICES IN CANADA! - » * ALL WORKMANSHIP. GUARANTEED 7 IN-HOME SERVICE: WALLCOVERINGS ~ ~ _REUPHOLSTERY °