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Drivers guilty of drinking

Covecliff Rd., North Vancouver
(breathalyser refusal, 30 days jail);
Richard Donat Dion, 28, 4853
Barker Cres., Burnaby (impaired,
$600 fine).

RECENT CONVICTIONS in
North Shore courts have resulted
in fines and penalties, including a
one-year driving suspension, for
drinking and driving related of-
fences:

WEST VANCOUVER: Bradley
Alexander Leitch, 23, 132 April
Rd., Port Moody (impaired, $475
fine);

NORTH VANCOUVER:
Stewart Groundwater, 31,

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Sunday, March 31, 1991 - North Shore News -- 11

Parents remain angry

over dual-entry program

WHILE West Vancouver's
District 45 School Board is calling
the new primary dual-entry pro-
gram a success, some parents say
the system is already failing their
children.

By Jeremy Hainsworth
Contributing Writer

The Ministry of Education in-
troduced the program in
September !990 so that parents
could have more choice in when
their children were first enrolled in
school. Under the previous
system, children almost a year
apart were entering school at the
same time.

“There were sometimes big dif-
ferences in children,’ said Lesley
Spry, District 45’s coordinator of
elementary programs. ‘‘The
youngest didn’t always adapt easi-
ly to school. In choosing the entry
date, parents should consider not
only children’s intellectual devel-
opment but also their emotional,
social and physical development.”’

But parents are worried about
their children’s social development
after they enter school under the
dual-entry program.

Janice Haakons’ five-year-old
daughter, Kristen, started school
in September 1990.

While Haakons said her daugh-
ter loves school, she said it has
been hard for Kristen to form any
long-term friendships because the
classes are split up as the students
who started earlier are moved on
in the educational system.

Haakons is concerned about
what happens to Kristen in
September.

Pupils are assessed by the
schools to determine if they are
ready to proceed to the next level
in the primary program.

“If she is allowed to go on (in
September), she will,’’ Haakons
said, adding that funding would
not be available for her daughter
to start on a full-day program un-
til January. “I'll be quite upset if
she’s academically abie to go on
with the other kids but is held
back because of funding.”’

Suzanne Zacharias was told by
her son’s teacher that he was
ready to go on in the system.

But Aubrey, five, was held back

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