A34 - Wednesday, April 18, 1984 - North Shore News

B.C. suffers
most: report

THE ECONOMIC recession and cut-backs in fun-
ding for education are having a harmful effect on
the social and learning environments of young peo-
ple, according to a study released by the Canadian

Teachers’ Federation.

Although the study found
that the harmful trends exist
across the country, the situa-
uon in British Columbia was
the worst even before the
round of cuts the schools will
face this spring.

The study, called
‘““Economic Recession = and
the Quality of Education:
Some Threatening Trends,"’
was conducted by Ronald J.
Burke, from the faculty at
York University in Ontario.

Some of the trends iden-
ufied by this research are:

resulting in increased class
sizes, deterioration of school
buildings, materials and
equipment, and less support
for professional development
opportunines for in-school!
educators.

estudents are showing in-
creasing evidence of negative
self-attitude and declining in-
terest in learning;

*students are being caught
in the turmoil of family con-
flict, separation and divorce,
as more and more marriages
fall by the wayside;

*the level of community
unemployment is having a
direct bearing on the school

ethe job of a teacher ts be-
ing made increasingly dif-
ficult as students translate the

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

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funding cutbacks are ingness to learn.

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