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' Dear Editor:

I thank D.E. Mawhinney
for bringing the Community
School problem to the at-
tention of the taxpayers of
North Vancouver. I must
however correct D.E.
Mawhinney on a few minor
points.

I am not, nor have I ever
been, liaison trustee for
Burrard View School. I have
not read a letter, from that
School Community
Association Secretary, to the
Board and I have not been
invited to that school on
several occasions.

When your correspondent
refers to confusion by facts,
it is obvious to all where the
confusion lies. D.E.
Mawhinney has mixed up
either the Trustees or the
Schools.

As the writer must be
aware, neither the Con-
cerned Citizens Association
nor myself is against the
public use of schools for
education or recreation
purposes. What we do object
to is the use of public funds,
intended for the education of
our children, for non-
educational purposes. In this
we are not alone.

In 1977 the North Van-
couver School Board

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students deprived

. requested a Legal Opinion

from their lawyer on ex-
penditures for Community
School use. This report
issued in December 1977
raised many questions
regarding the legality of the
expenditures. Further to this
the B.C. School Trustees
Association received a
further legal opinion which
agreed that School Boards
did not have the authority to
fund community services.

Since. this report was
received in September 1978,
at least two further legal
opinions have been received
which are more definite and
it is believed that one lawyer
has been instructed to
proceed with legal action.

Community Programmes
in the North Vancouver
Schools will cost more than
$250,000 in 1979. If the
recommendations of a
recent Task Force On
Administrative Needs are
adopted we can see this
expenditure increase to two
million dollars each year,
when each school is given a
coordinator and each
coordinator is promoted to
the rank of vice principal.

Needless to say this Task
Force was well supplied with
those dedicated to the
Community School Concept.
Like your correspondent,

Some teachers

not worth their salt?

Dear Editor:

I never read so many
heartbreaking letters in
defence of their profession,
their unselfish sacrifice for
the good and welfare of
education made me cry. I
wondered why none of them
could figure out the days
they teach, maybe there was
no computer handy?

While kids know more

somewhere else, where the
teacher ratio goes as high as
1 to 40, but with less frills,
the teacher federation isn't
satisfied with the present one
nearly 1 to °0. No wonder
our school taxes are rising

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every year despite a hefty
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about the long hours, how
come there are so many
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does the government
tolerate teachers on school

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North Vancouver

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