14 — Wednesday, June 27, 1990 - North Shore News

Environment a major concern for students

From page 12

But Carson Graham teacher
Wyng Chow, one of my teachers
10 years ago, says all cf thar has
changed.

The environment today, he
says, is a major student concern.

Carmella, a Grade 12 student,
took time out from studying
Algebra to offer her views on the
environment and took aim at our
past lack of concern.

“What will happen in 10 years?”

One of the biggest changes in
the education system over the past
decade has been the introduction
of new courses.

Business teacher Brian Cousins,
whose classroom is filled with
Macintosh computers, says one of
the more popular courses at the
schyol is desk-top publishing.

Using computers and printers,
Cousins’ class produces Carson

class.

The computers are also used to
produce a variety of items for
local businesses, everything from
business cards to company
reports.

Cousins says the success of the
course is measured by industry's
demand for students studying
desk-top publishing, which did not
exist at the school 10 years ago.

Other new courses at the schooi
in which

and art medal, in which students
make their own jewelry.

While such courses are electives,
as Opposed to the mandatory aca-
demic courses, they are also career
preparation programs designed to
help students enter the work force
earlier by graduating earlier.

They are aimed at the student
who has litde interest in pursuing
a career based on academic
courses or the student who does
not do well academically.

students are also being offered in
far greater number now than they
were 10 years ago.

Another new course is native
education, in which native stu-
dents study their own history and
culture.

Slade says the future of educa-
tion, at least at Carson Graham,
will be focused on the academics.
But he is quick to add that the ca-
reer preparation and clective
courses will continue to be an im-

include hair dressing,
students work on the heads of
customers from the community,

Graham's student newspaper. The
newspaper’s editorial copy is writ-
ten by the school’s journalism

“It’s kind of scary thinking that
past generations are destroying
our environment,’’ she says.

portant part of the school’s
system.

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