A7 - Sunday, April 4, 1982 - North Shore News,

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Dear Editor:

The News has been having
such a good time being silly
about North Vancouver
education that I almost hate

to spoil the fun. Since some .

of your readers are serious
about their schools, they
might be interested in a few
facts.

First. the North Van
teathers and school board
are not “ganging up” to “plot

M.D.s have

(EDITOR'S NOTE:
Due to last minute space
limitauons in our tissue of
April 1 a letter from

budget disruption”. Our
board put together a tight
budget, and Victoria is
trying to disrupt it with an ill-
conceived and _  mistimed
restraints program.

Second, Noel Wright
insulted the students and
staff of Hamilton Junior
Secondary in his would-be
defence of the school. Mr.
Wright portrayed the school
as a sort of haven for misfits
instead of the lively and

SOME say

medical profession has
some responsibility for
abortions, whether they
are “early” or “late”,

exciting. place it is. He
moaned about -the kids’ fate
when they had to go instead
to dreaded Carson Graham,
where everyone is so smart
and competent. Well, in-
deed they are — and vir-
tually everyone at Hamilton
has always gone straight on
to Carson, so what's the
problem? The good in

Hamilton's system will Jong

survive its buildings, and
Carson Graham will do
better as a big school with
plenty of resources, as it was
designed to be.

Forty-five per cent of
North Vancouver's school-
tax base — the tax on

Students

commercial and _ industrial
property — has been
“nationalized” by Victoria.
That’s so Victoria can make
provincial grants to needy
school districts. But under
the formula, North Van-
couver isn't needy, so our
businesses and industries are
sull subsidizing districts
elsewhere in the province,
’ just as they did under the old
formula. It’s great for West
Vancouver. They were
smart enough to keep in-
dustry out, so they literally
wyhave nothing to lose. The
--average West Van
homeowner will pay only 6%
of the cost per pupil: the

quitting

New school finance formula hurts everybody

North Van homeowner’ will
pay 11%.

If the new formula stays in
force for long, everyone will
be hurt. Our kids will be hurt

because they're unlucky
enough to live in a
“prosperous” district. Our

business taxpayers will be
hurt because their taxes will
be spent as the mandarins
decree, far from North
Vancouver. Homeowners
will have to bear the same

TAX

old unfair burden. And the
school board — elected by
the voters to be responsible
to the voters — will become
no more than a rubber stamp
for made-in-Victoria
decisions.

As a school trustee, a
taxpayer, and a parent, |

intend to fight Victoria's
“black hole” centralization
of power.

Crawford Kilian

School Trustee

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reader E.P. Webb had to
be shortened by editing.
Asa result, cé¥tain points
important to Mr. Webb

since all abortions must
be approved by a
committee of doctors,
and since doctors are the

public system

were omitied. We are

therefore reprinting his
letter below in full and
unedited.) ,
Dear Editor:

Marlene E. Hunter,
M.D., in a recent letter to
your paper expressed
concern: that physicians
are held “culpable of
delaying abortions at

only people who perform
abortions at the hosptial.
Abortions could not be
done at the hospital if the
medical profession were
opposed to abortion.

At L.G.H. in 1981
there were 799 applicants
for abortion submitted to
the Abortion Committee;
all 799 were approved by

Dear Editor:

The letter from West
Vancouver School Trustee
D. Sikula (News, March 17)
supplies useful salary in-
formation for comparison
with North Vancouver.

The North Vancouver
School Superintendent is
paid $88 000 per year, 13 per
cent above the average for

The school system he runs
is so good that more than a
thousand North Vancouver
students have left to attend
independent schools. This is
50 per cent above the
number predicted by the
provincial average.

Let's hear it for the North
Vancouver School trustees!

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do betieve that the

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