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SLAP IN FACE FROM VANDER ZALM

EDUCATION Minister Bill Vander Zalm has
entered his last few days in office with a slap
in the face for West Vancouver School

trustees.

A report ordered by him which comments onm\their
decision to close five elementary schools and which

makes counter proposals - a report they did not even
know was in existence — has been sent to local Socred
politicians and a parents’ group ... but not to the school

board.

First the trustees even
knew of the report by former
education official Fred
Macklin was when parents
came to the board meeting
Monday waving copies of it.

Vander Zalm had mailed
copies to outgoing West
Van-Howe Sound MLA
Allan Williams, Socred can-
didate for the constituency
John Reynolds and Glen-

ting to get a copy to the
school board. Meanwhile
photocopies of the Macklin
Report had spread like
wildfire among parents op-
posing the closures.

The trustees are angry
about every aspect of the
way the report has occurred.

At the heart of the furore
is the quesvon of school
board autonomy.

rst time such ap-
not been auto-

ic.
Board Chairman Norm
Alban comments: “There

have been dozens of schools
closed on the Lower
Mainland in the last few
years and the minister's ap-
proval has been a rubber
stamp.”

Then there are the
Secretive negotiations which
led to the creation of the
report, from which the
school board was noticeably
absent.

Vander Zalm ordered the
report after meeting with
Williams and parents of

nouncing his resignation.
The board issued a state-
ment Thursday saying it had
previously been informed
the Mackhn Report would be
“to assure the minister that
the board had followed an
appropriate process in
developing and com-
municating its plans.”
Following the embarrass-
ment of Monday's meeting,
trustees obtained a copy of
the report from one of the
local sources that had
already seen it, and held a
behind-closed doors meeting
Tuesday.
To add insult to injury,

Vasque

TECHNOLOGY they may
need tomorrow is taught
today in North Vancouver
schools. Two “roving packs”
of 30 computer terminals are
shared ‘among the schools
for a month at a time, giving
grade 6 and 7 students an
“hands-on” ex-
perience while teachers and
parents also get the op-
portunity to become
computer literate. High
schools have their own
for
in-
struction, computer science
and administrative
bookkeeping. Assistant
Superintendent for the
school district Leo Marshall
told the school board the
programs are such a success
that the only = thing
preventing their further
expansion is lack of funds to
buy new micro-computers.
Pictured practising on the
“roving” computers § are
Michelle Weinman and
fellow students at
Maplewood School.

micro-computers
computers-aided

Trustees last to know about report

they found the report did not
even deal with the matters

they had been told it would.

Rather, it came up with
Macklin’s own recommenda-
tions - that the elementary
schools the board wants to
close should remain open
and that instead one senior
school close as a more effec-
tive cost saving.

The board reiterated its
stand that it does not pro-
pose closing any school to
save costs but rather because
it concurs with Schools
Superintendent Ed Carlin
that the overall result will

CONTINUED ON PAGE A4

A3 - Sunday, May 1, 1983 - North Shore News

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