north shore news MAIL B Education concerms Dear Editor: Tam 15 years old and cur- in Grade 9 at junior secondary ¥ purpose is to help pens understand a ki ems have made anges within the fast 20 years. Students are no longer whipped with belts or canes when they have been misbehaving; teachers are more educated in their ficld; and assistance prograins are available for students with icarning disabilities. Sounds like paradise, right? What are the problems? Teachers assume their students will understand their teaching as well as they do. Wrong! Students are then classified by teachers into groups: straight “A” students, average students and slackers. This is how most teachers sec it, but they do not realize that in most cases the slacker students work just as hard if aot harder than the straight “A” students. There are some students who have risen the stereot Bo marks, These students are the ones that should be — receiving awards for outstanding effort. Inste: the students who always have higher grades receive them, What about the students with learning disabilities who find it impossible to achieve success? Students with Down's Syndrome and other physical and mental disabilities receive special study classes to keep up and a teacher assistant to help them in their classes. What abour the learning disabilities that do not affect one’s appearance bur result in a chemical imbalance in the brain such as Attention Deticit Hyperactivity Disorder. I realize teachers are edu- cated on these common disor- ders and informed by cach OX ch students have but more must be done, Teachers should dig bebind the scenes of the class- room ettart before penalizing the student, All students learn in differ- ent ways. Some have photo- graphic memorie: to stand and move to learn, and some find talking about their studies casier. This needs to be acknowledged and put into action. Instead students are in desks row by row with only two learning tools: 2 pencil and their cars. During a student’s schoo} years, they should learn about the many different levels of education that are not being taught. When a student fails a test it is not necessarily the student that failed. In many cascs it is the instructor that failed to sufficiently educate the stu- dent. Dean Short North Vancouver parent. wi disabilin Valley water source makes sense From page 7 1,000 gallons. According to a Dayton and Knight Ed. consulting report presented to the Fraser Valley Water Commission late last year, the cost for water treatment and delivery to eastern areas of growth in the Lower Mainland would be two to three times higher using the smaller Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam systems than it would using the Harrison source. And if the Harrison option were to be tapped, there would be no need to raise Seymour dam and flood additional areas of North Shore forest, such as the old Seymour Demonstration Forest (now the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve). It would also negate the need to toss a half billic dollars into tinkering with the North Shore’s water sys- tem. And it would open up the possibility of using the Capilano lake area for out- door recreation and the gen- eration of local tourism dol: lars. Water, it appears, should be on a Jot of North Shore brains. — trenshaw@dircct.ca ‘the beautiful view of thee club house Patio. registration Sunday, June 27, 1999 — North Shore News ~ 9 SUMMER %o PROGRAMS SAVINGS At Academy for Mathematics & Science our proven programs help stu- dents learn at their own pace, continually supported by the appropriate feedback tor building contidence and self-esteem. 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