14 - Wednesday. Octuber 14. 1998 — North Shore News

parents get CAPP teachi

Controversiai
program siill
compulsory

Catherine Sarr
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver
school district will
provide alternatives
for parents who find
the CAPP (Career

have ringed
teaching

Complaints
from inadequate
matensal aad 2
fanuly privacy
about the open
approach.

Bur now parenis well have
a choice in how their chil
dren dearn about such deli-
cate subjects thanks toa pro
posed alternative delivery
policy.

The course is required
curricuium and is a necessary
component tor graduation.

Parents will theretore only

ro uneasiness
classroom

stalauen of

teaching approach tar the
persanal developmient por
von oaly

Students will
alowed to opt out of
program eniurciy.

CAPP as taught to stu
dents mo ogrades Sota 72.
Personal planning is coughe
to students from kinder-
garten to Grade 7.

The personal
ment component aimy te
educate children about
healthy living, mental well
being, family lite. child

nar be
the

develop:

selety aid injury.

Rat members or the dis
mS comsullative comant
tee are wormed about the
implementation of the pro
posed alternative delivers
policy.

Many agreed that parents
hase to kaow more about
the programs and identified
the need to communicate
that information more ctice
uvely.

“tf vou're talking abour
date rape, {then} is date
rape, not family life,” said
Parents

Associaton Conimittec:
provident Kathleen Glynn
Morris.

She sand she would bke to
sce a more detailed coment
torm dratied.

Student representatives
David Mitchell and Zahra
Ebrahins pointed out that che
students themselves, and nat
just the parents, need to
be given special considera-
ton,

“We're taking the stu.
dents out of the equation”
said Mitchell.

Bat committee chairman

ng opti

ns

and scheal trustee David
Stevenson assed the group
that stademe in the alterna
tive program will still be
required to tuffl the same
final requirements ay thove 1
the classroom.

He likened at to
swhoolng.

“They (students) still get
the learning aid achieve the
(same}) competency level,
whatever that may be 7 he
said.

“At the end of the day,
they would have the same
outcomes.”

home

be able to choose another abuse, substance abuse and DPAC | (District

and Personal
Planning) program too
personal.

Since its introduction by
the province back in 1993,
the CAPP program has sut-
fered growing pains.

Lately, the program has
come under scrutiny by par-
ents for teaching sensitive,
and often sexual topics in an
overtly public setting.

Some parents object to
the frank nature of the per-
sonal component of the
course.

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