414 - Wednesday, July 26, 1993, North Shore News Special Supplement Report looks to past and future of N. Van education values, its professional priorities and the outside influences that have an impact on the system. it looks to the future and it EVERY LEARNER a Promise is a report by Thomas Fleming that offers an overview of Norsh Van- couver's education system, its By Kevin Gillies Contributing Writer SERVING ALL OF B.C., VANCOUVER ISLAND & ALBERTA Complete Moving & Storage Facilities for over 77 Years PHONE FAX 987-0269 922-9397 | 922-2212 2 WE OFFER % - Packing materials, new & used | ® Packing and Unpacking services | @. Moving of a single Item to the largest residence '@ Office relocation and internal moving - ‘Mini-storage facility, open:7 days a week + Containerized stora lin ‘We bring the container to your residence, less han ng of your belongings | x Secure, clean and climate- controlled warehousing ‘FERGUSION MOVING (1990) LTD. 4440 ) DOMINION ST. f NORTH VAN. of Persons? De vie i Christie had ig, ¥er’s on ese Sime Doug Collins has moved.up in the News. A whole two pages. On Wednesday you can now . read Doug’s column “On the Other Hand” on page 7. The content will probably be the same, just a different location. That's about all we can dowith a guy like Doug. "THE VOICE OF HORTH AND WEST UANCOUVER SUNDAY + WEDNESDAY « FRIDAY looks to the past. The report is a culmination of over three years’ worth of study, evaluation, debate, consultation and planning. The process was initiated ‘to solicit public and professional reactions to the changes in school- ing being contemplated at the provincial level, to assess district needs and objectives, and to for- mulate a strategy to assist District 44 in managing the various educa- tional and social changes impac- ting on local schools.”’ North Vancouver School District 44 has come a long way since the Burrard Inlet School was built to provide educational ser- vices to the mill workers’ children in 1873. Along the way, North Van- couver school district was ‘‘devel- oping technical and commercial courses to help prepare members of a modern society for specializ- ed kinds of work.” The district was one of the first in the province to have telephone service, as well as offer night school for adult education. ‘ But now the district covers 152 square kilometres’ with the !atest _ federal census showing a popula- tion in excess of 104,000. , ~The same census information”: . shows that, almost. 29,000 families” live in North Vancouver — 62% having children at home. The district’. now operates 32 elementary and eight secondary — schools. wo Planning for the future i is com- plicated. by “varius ‘social, eco-: nomic, and ° ‘other. factors whose. origins: lie beyond: the urisdiction of North. Vancouver.’ : According. to} the? report, | OA recently condhicted.. environmental scan commissioned by the ‘Every. Learner a Prosnise’ ‘project iden- tified six broad ‘trends that will impact ‘upon’ the community. of North. Vancouver and its schools. _in the decade’ ahead. - : : : && The family as a social and intellectual support system has: been altered. 99 ~~ Every Leamer a Promise - as a social and intellectual support system has been altered. Schools |’. may redefine goals in light of this. emerging need; ® Declining population, through natural growth, an aging. popula- tion, current immigration ‘policies, pressures from a world economy,’ and a continued search’ for ways in which multiculturalism may: become -embedded in Canada’s constitution, provide an unclear foundation for planning. The pro- spect of significant change should be the cornerstone : of. curr nt planning; © . @ Society will increasingly “ha two. distinct:- standard—of—livi levels: one which is “highly. com-.’ petitive, well-paid, and: somewhat - secure; and the other, less. secure, “rainimum wage, by necessity both’ . parents working; «°°: @ Significant. numbers of. students” te not-continue ‘school to Brat They are. “summarized a follows:: @ Population . increases in North : Vancouver "will be -more- ‘affected: ‘ by government. policy, on. interest: p rates and: land development than: by natural growth.‘ The number. of ‘ci school-age children. will be rela- tively constant and will represent a decreasing proportion of the total population; . @ Chiidren will arrive at. school from a home situation quite’ dif- ferent. from that experienced by children 20 years ago. 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