WEST VANCOUVER Parks and Recreation staff Frank Correia
(left) and Shirley McKell work on keeping this year's floral

display at the entrance of the British Properties looking its

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LAWYER
senting a group of West
Vancouver parents who
have been battling the West
Vancouver School Board
(VWEVSB) and the education
ministry over the controver-
sial dual-entry program, is
challenging the B.C. School
Act in court,

THE repre-

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

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challenges
provincial
school act

(PNCODE) to
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children to enrot in
this Seprember. Phe new
sear is set to begin a pipe 17 days.

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birthday falls between Nov. 7 and
April 30 must wait undid either the
following January or September
before entering Kindergarten.

And if a child's Gfth birthday
fally between May band Oct. Jl,
he oor she may be enrolled in
hindergarten in eitier the follow.
ing September or January.

But PACODE, a group of 14
West Vancouver parents with I4
children whose birthdays fall in
either November or December,
wants the WAVSB oto allow their
children to gnrol in) kindergarten
in othe September immediately
poor oto them birthdays he
children ce@uld them  proeress
through the cdtucatian sys swith
them triencls rather dian be fet
belund,

SUNDAY

Newsman Philip Till
iooks back on career

Affluence

August 19, 1990

the WYVSB has refused to
allow November-December
children in’ Kindergarten before
thes cura five because. according
to the board, it would be breaking
the law by contravening the B.C.
School Act.

But school boards im North
Vaneourer, Vancotver, Squamish,
Whistler Howe Sound. Burnabs,
Richmond, Ganges and) Sabon
Arm have all ayreed te alow
Nosember- December children tite
hirtle tte in the | September
mmimediately: prior ote chet titty
biithdass.

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NEWS photo Mike Wakstield

best. Flowering trees and garden beds make the Taylor Way
boulevard a year-round visual delight.

November-December children
from enrolling in kindergarten in
September, he said his ministry
would not reprimand any school
bourd that chooses to defy dual-
enry.

PACODE has now hired Peter
Gall, one of the top three con.
sututional lawyers in’ Vancouver,
to fight tts case.

PACQODE spokesman Kim
Stephens said the court challenge
will be based soles on the BoC.
School Act. Phe crument will be
that school boards do have at
choice on when fo ental children
in kindergarten Because of the
deopstan ot some scbeal boards to
dets odauraleentis and atlow

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