Gail Matheson
in the spotlight
North Shore Now: 17

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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

THE EVENTUAL overall champion, Ontario's Al Pilcher, battles the rain and fog on Hollyburn Ridge
Sunday to win a gold medal — his third in the four-race series — in the men’s 50-km, free tech-
nique cross-country ski race. Behind Pitcher is Darren Derochie of 8.C. who finished in eighth
place. The week-long national cross-country championship at Hollyburn Ridge finished on Sunday.
The overall women’s champion was Angela Schmidt-Foster of Ontario. See story page 13.

Getting the gold

School superintendent takes aim at union president’s policy comments

DESCRIBING IT as odious,

misleading and incorrect,

West Vancouver District 45 school superintendent Doug
Player blasted a YVest Vancouver Teachers’ Association
(WVTA) presentation Monday that said District 45 shoud
cut its number of administrators and use the money to hire

more teachers.

Player owas responding to
WVTA president John Luccock’s
budget priorities brief in which the
WVTA stated that the number of
District 2S administrative officers
(AOs) has increased at the sec-
ondary level while the number of
students has fallen.

Both North
districts are currently

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By Patrick Raynard
Contributing Writer

contract negotiations with their
teachers.

Stated the WVTA brief: ‘‘Eight
AOs at West Vancouver Senior
Secondary and = Hillside are a

fudicrous mumber when one

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WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD

recognizes that they have approx-
imately one FTE (full time
equivalent) teaching time among
them. Sentinel has three AQOs.
Their total teaching time is .375.""
Luccock also said that there are
33 FTE AOs in the district, a ratio
of one for every 8.71 teachers,
and that ‘‘since 1989-90, there has
been a net increase of one AO,
but, in fact, there has been a
significant shift in the number of
AOs who do not teach or are

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assigned less teaching duties
vice principals at the secondary
school teach less than .4 of their
time.”

In his verbal presentation to the
board, Lueccock said that ‘this
district, has more administrators
than are needed to run the
district, and if we had fewer ad-
ministrators we would have the
money to hire more teachers.””

But, responding fiercely to Luc-
cock, Player told the gathered
trustees and parents that ‘‘the in-
formation in this brief is incor-
rect, and what I find odious about

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WEST Vancouver school
perintendent Doug Player
brief is ‘‘odious.”’

ard boss blasts union

Su-