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Deat Editor:

I refer to your recent
Speckulations and the other
side of the coin by Ted
Archibald. Whilst agreeing
that the Classroom Teacher

is not overpaid for the work
he, or she, is doing, and that

most of the teachers are
doing a good ‘job, costs for
education in North Van-
couver are the highest by far
in the Lower Mainland and
the senior administration is
perhaps the largest in the
Province for the size of the
District.

The high taxes suffered by

- the residents of North
Vancouver are not duc to
the Classroom Teacher.
Although the pupil/teacher
ratio in this District is the
lowest in the Lower
Mainland and for any large
or medium size district in
British Columbia, our class
size is about average and one
must repeat the question,
“Where are the missing
teachers?”

One does not have far to
look. We see a. small army
engaged in, to quote the
Minister of Education,
reinventing the wheel, by
duplicating’ services
provided by the Provincial
Government or already
completed by other School

Districts. We see others:

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masquerading as recreation
and social services con-
siltants in the Community

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The Community services
-of these schools cost the
North Vancouver taxpayer
at least a quarter of a million
dollars ‘at. present.. If ex-
panded to include all North
Vancouver schools the cost
will increase to -$1,500, 000.
For. what? Certainly not for
education. We also read of

- Dental Hygienists being

funded by the School Board
. to carry out a programme for
three-year-olds. Com-
mendable? ‘Yes. Education?
Doubtful.

It seems that the School
Board in the past has
searched high and low for
ways to spend the Education
dollar. and with a great deal
of success: Although in-
flation is blamed for rising
education costs, the School
Board Budget increased at
almost twice the rate of

‘inflation, despite the loss of
4,000 pupils, in the past few
years. The cost of educating
each student here increased
113% from 1973 to 1977, the
largest increase by far for a
community of this size.

Teachers’ salaries are

blamed for the rapid in-

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crease but all other School
Districts pay equivalent
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School Teachers’ salaries in
this- District- take a smaller
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from a high of 74% in 1972
to 69% in 1978 and 68.9% in
1979, -

Fixed costs are another
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North Vancouver, fixed

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‘Becoming an Influential
Parent in the Education of
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and operating of buildings.
Although the school
population has declined
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Board has yet to abandon
one building. Ted Archibald
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school costs is a recent
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last the straw has broken the
Camel’s back. mw

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North Vancouver -

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