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Friday, C October 2, 1992 — North Shore News - 23

Wayne Gretzky, The Great One,
recently announced that he may
never play hockey again. Do you
think that’s good or bad? Why?
Do you watch hockey or other

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‘NORTH VANCOUVER students are taking 26 different courses designed to help ¢hem choose career
paths. With the help of instructor David Newman (standing), these Video Production students are
learning by doing, making two videos from start to finish.

Breaking down the walls

‘WHEN CAREER preparation courses were first introduc-

ed to high schools, the classes focused on mechanics or
welding — preparing students for specific jobs. Today’s
career education classes cover the gamut from accounting
to video production, and they prepare students for careers.

No longer a bridge between

- school and the job market, the

program now aims at preparing
students for post-secondary
school by helping them to better
understand the fields that interest
them.

The North Vancouver School
Board runs 26 different programs
under the career preparation um-
brella, explained program director

- Bill Friesen.

Course subjects include market-
ing, accounting, commercial art
and theatre.

These courses require the stu-
dent to take three courses that

_focus on the carcer subject and

two that support it, as well as
working at a business for approx-
imately 100 hours.

“They will gain work experience
that just couldn’t be provided in
the school setting,’’ said Friesen.

“This is a living outcome of the
recommendations of the Year
2000 curriculum that says that
school should be more relevant
and challenging to the student.”’

“Self-directed’’ learning allows

Last week, we asked where teens
like to hang out. We had heard
coffee shops were the latest fad
but most of you disagreed.

I don’t think coffee shops are
the coolest teenage hangouts
because I hang out at Radio
Shack and that’s the coolest
because you get to see all the
new computer games before
anyone else. Coffee shops,

they’re just a bad influence. I po
to the school computer labs and
play on the computers. It’s pret-

ty fun. Peopie should try it
sometime, it will get them away
from peer pressure and stuff like
‘that.

I think a lot of coffee shops
sre opening up, but I wouldn't
go there for a teen hang-out. I
think thai teens like to hang out
aud leiter around 7-Eleves. I
don’t do that personally, but I

By Pamela Lang
ZAP! Writer |

Students more choices, so they
become ‘‘managers of their own
learning process." This style of
learning also helps students to
understand themselves better, said
Friesen.

Students also take more pride in
their work because they are pro-
ducing something tangible, he
said, and that leads to fewer in-
stances of being iate or absent.

“They have obligations that are
going to be recognized, and not
just by a mark in a_ teacher’s
book.”’

One new course in the career
education stream involves video
technology. Five students are
making videos for school board
use and contributing to the North
Shore News ZAP! page.

Course instructor David
Newman said this type of course
‘‘breaks down the four walls of
the classroom.”’

Five Sutherland Secondary stu-

“go to the pool.

1 think they’re really cool
hang-outs because you car just
talk with your friends and no
one’s around to criticize you or
anything so that’s where I go in
my free time.

Who wants to go to a coffee
shop, why not just go to the
movies,

My friends like to hang out at
movies, fun houses, come
together and have a whole bunch
of people over and just party.
As a teenager what else can you
do? But you don't need coffee -
shops for that.

1 think coffee shops are rad
but I prefer to be at home.

I'm in Grade 10 and I don’t

dents are taking the Video Pro-
duction 12 career preparation
course: Ben Dehkhodazi, Kris
Tuyssuzian, Teya Mathias, A.Hison
Poirier, Monika Janousek.

“There is more responsibility,
they let us make our own choices,
it’s up to us,”’ said Mathias.

Newman pointed out that these
students are.aware that if they are
late or fail to complete a task,
they are letting down the produc-
tion team that consists of himself
and the five students. :

“This is more experience than I
would get anywhere else,” said
Tuyssuzian.

The students are bothered by
the connotation that career
preparation is ‘‘courses for dumb
people,’’ as Pcirier put it.

Freisen: added that career
preparation courses are for the
brightest students.

“This is a program which has a
stigma of ‘schoo! to work,’ but it
is school to self-directed learning,
to life-long learning.”’

‘Career education is really
making choices.’’

These five students will be al-
ternating as authors of a new
ZAP! column that begins’ this
week. The stories running with the
Youth News flag will be written:
by members of the class, with the
help of the other four students.

enjoy hanging out on the corners
of streets or 7-Eleven because I
think the childhood years should
be spent with the parents. Later
you'll be in school or at a job
and you won’t be able to hang
out with your parents, so ia my
free time I like to hang out with
my parents.

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sportson T.V.?

THE 1950s, a time of old

Chevys, leather jackets,
James Dean and _slicked-
back hair.

School Ties is the story of
David Greene of Union Hill,
Pennsylvania (played by Brendan
Fraser) who is attending his first
and final year at St. Matthew's
Academy.

Because of his ability to play
football, in the position of
quarterback, St. Matthew’s of-
fered him a scholarship, even
though the academy knew his
Jewish beliefs would not .be wel-
comed.

His winning personality won
over everybody including Charlie
Dillon (who is the fifth generation
of Dillons to attend St. Mat-
thew’s) who said, ‘‘People are
drawn to you not just because you
are a quarterback but because if
you make it, it’s great and if you
don’t, you'll manage.”

David was a hero until Charlie
Dillon overheard seme teachers
talking about the new Jewish
quarterback. From that moment
on David was no longer the
“great white hope.’’

School Ties clearly personifies

the prejudice and bigotted at- -

titudes of many of the posh ivy-
league generation of that era. ‘This
simple story shows how unfair
and narrow-minded people can

In the beginning David chose to
ignore the unintentional Jewish
remarks ‘thrown around by his
well-scrubbed privileged WASP
friends. “I wouldn’t go to Har-
vard if they paid me. Al! those
Jews and Communists.”

This film is well crafted with a
wonderful music score by Maurice
Jarre. Period music is also woven
in to give it the feel of the ’50s.
The photography is also incredi-
ble, including the steamy shower
scenes,

For the most part all the char-
acters had depth except Sally, a
girl who grew up with Dillon and
quickly jilted him for the new
quarterback. She seemed like a
blonde flake from a romance
novel.

Despite this minor flaw, all of

us in Sutherland's Video Produc-
tion 12 Career Preparation course
consider this a must-see movie!

Youth News is written coopera-
tively by the students of
Sutherland Secondary School’s
Video Production career prepara-
tion course. Allison Poirier is one
the class’ five students.

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