A8 - Wednesday, Janvary 30, 1985 - North Shore News

really, this

Children’s Crusade in the schools. It’s a sign of

our great expectations society, and the only
surprising thing about it is that the kids aren’t mar-
ching over to Victoria to kill the infidel.

Like their forébears of the
12th century, they don’t have
the faintest idea what they're
up to, but that’s only to be
expected. when their parents
and school boards don’t have
any brains either:
.. Doctor Collins,
known pedagogue,

the well-
would

have a remedy for the school-. -

Strike tactic. He would say,
By all means. stay away, you.
spoiled brais;: And good rid:
dance. But bear in mind that
if you stay away you don’t
get back to school anyway.
So: make: your emply little.
minds. up. "
’Sad to relate, Dr. Collins i is

_ - Rot'in charge of the schools.”.
> As: far as placés like Van-

couver and Kitimat are. con-
cerned; no one is in charge of
the “schools... Things fall
apart, the centre cannot hold,

sort of thing. Which is to be
expected, ‘since any ‘looney,
can . capture “the ~ bs .
these. days. Even the

looneys.

Most of the trouble
originates, naturally, with the
parent-looneys, school-board
fooneys and media looneys,
who believe that it would be
perfectly easy to hire a con-
juror to produce money out
of a hat.

Comrade Pauline Weins-
tein and the COPE people are
prime propagators of that
philosophy. But what else do
you expect from people who
have never had to meet’a
payroll, and are firmly con-.

vinced that the rest of us ~ ‘

must do it for theni?

‘+: Doctor Collins has .been °

peering into. the’ school
system for many years and
doesn’t believe there’s an
education crisis at all. Dif-

ficulties, yes. Crisis,.no.. For”

the truth is that the system
has been spoiled. It. was
bloated with dough and thie
new realities therefore come
as a shock. The whiners can’t

Dear Editor:

* | followed the charge of

Dr. .R. Ridington against
‘Collins and was surprised

that the Press Council acted
as they did. It seems to me:
that the pressure groups,
mostly minorities, are getting ..

the best of the majorities. So

“ the. ruling: was'a most plea-

Sant’ ‘surprise to me.

I ‘have’ read Collins’ for -

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get this
straight

Doug Collins

reconcile themselves to Dad's
having less take-home pay.

The other day, I had a fet-
ter from a chap in North Van
that illustrates the point. His
son attends Handsworth
Secondary ard brought home

-quite some time. He is one of

‘the best.there is. Les Bewley
‘is another’ columnist who
warms my heart. with his fac-
tual reporting. 1 wish we had
more like these two
gentlemen. :

L'am-enclosing a ‘letter 1
sent to all the members of our
Federal Government. As
usual only two acknowledged
the letter; ° Our’ governments

a tale of woe written by the
principal, Mr. R.B.
Williams. This official ex-
plained that because af the
Provincial government's
restraint program (nudge-
nudge, wink wink) six
teachers, six clerical staff and
four custodians (meaning
cleaning staff) had to be laid
off. And Mr. Williams pro-
vided a long lamentation on
what hardships this entailed.

That six clerks and four
janitors had to be laid off in-
dicates that more remain, as
my correspondent pointed
out. But, he asks what does a
school of 1,000 students do
with more than six clerical
staff? It isn’t so long since he
went to school himself, and
with 500 students the entire

- secretarial staff consisted of

the principal’s secretary.

As for the ‘‘custodial”
staff, he wrote, ‘I do not
believe that it is a good idea
to allow students to litter the
school to such a degree that
four-plus staff are needed to

run around picking up after .

them.’’
He also mentioned that the
Handsworth school report of

ate’ looking for votes from
the bleeding hearts and the
minorities and ignore the
majority.

Again my blessing for you
who will uphold our freedom

: . Of speech and democratic

system.

A.J. Thiessen,
Surrey.

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have brought it home with
them?’’ he asks.

Small stuff, no doubt. But

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i T’S NOT SURPRISING,

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school in every school district
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Crusade and Weinstein the
whiner. She should. have
some brains even though
she’s a professor.

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