As. Friday, February 1, 1985 -

Morth Shore News

P ritish Columbia has ; become one huge com-

laint'buréau. Nothing is right, and nowhere
here | more bitching than in the education

has ‘been:so pampered it thinks it

if doesn’ t get steak twice a day.
per student less than when

restraint. began in 1982.
Parent-teacher ratios. are

“-worth looking at, too. 117.

Vancouver, the ratio was

17.7 in 1983, 18.6 in °84, and -

21.3 (estimated) for ’85. B.C,
School --Trustee~ Association
figures: put it slightly better
than that, Either way, there’ s

‘Vancouver, with only 5,000...
tudents, _ compared to Van- |

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five whole elementaries. But
life still. goes.on. In. Van-
couver, all hell is raised when
there’s talk of closing a
secondary :school. Yet some
;Vantouver sécondaries are
‘operating at only 65 to 75 per
“cent capacity.”
For’ “decades,
, has
wasteful,
“system. :
things are now worse, thanks
to socialist control... .
~ Cht ef whiner Weinstein ‘is

Cadillac school

an ¢-‘ucation - professor, -"
“which tells you a lot, and
_‘dreams of .the perfect
““multicult state. For her, cost-"-

ly race relations policies and

programs. are 4 pleasure, and -
. she would rather be burned at

the” stake” than ’‘complain

‘about all the immigrants de-

ing sicked on ‘the system by
‘the . feds.

for. ‘special. programs. for.

served with potatoes

or rice and fresh -».. ..

Vancouver .
had’ an especially |

In. many \ respects -

She: also: bawls ‘constantly,
I i

fact that Indians will always
be Indians unless they get off
their backsides and do more
for themselves. And she
wants big bucks for-*‘native
Indian home-school workers

-and native Indian cultural

enrichment staff’. What
she's running is a welfare
system, not a school board,
and if Vancouver parents cot-

“toned on to what is happen-

ing they’d be really mad.

In Coquitlam — another
big complaint centre — they
were daft enough to pay
teachers thirty bucks a time
for “minding tots ‘during
lunch-breaks.. The same

schoolboard now puts”

$150,000 aside to teach kids:
how to swim. What’s wrong

it?

financing method being what,

“itis, people get ‘the idea that”
somebody else ‘is doing the .

Well, according to

paying.

‘North’ Van. Trustee” Ross ~
Regan it ‘would ‘cost tax-

payers an extra 3150 in the
coming year to keep North
Van school expenditure levels

‘where they are now — if the

school district. had. to pay i

* ‘own way.

The sconer school districts:
go: back to" paying th
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