8. Sunday, Sune 1, 1986: - North Shore News

Doug Collins

© get this straight e

DO YOU want your kid to grow up to be a good little
socialist? Whether you do or not, you may have little say in
the matter. If teachers follow the ‘line laid down by the B.C.
Teachers Federation, little Johnny will have his brain

‘washed.

Je Tf you don’t believe me, get, a
copy of Poverty in B.C.,
booklet the BCTF has made
available to all teachers. If prin-

\ cipals give their permission, it can
be used in the. schools as
‘resource material’’. It can be us-
ed without their. permission, too,
if teachers want. to be- sneaky
about it.

Poverty in B.C. is a socialist
tract pure and simple. What else
could it be, seeing that it comes
i from ‘a ‘coalition of 16 B.C.
groups that want to end poverty in
B.C.”, every one of which. flies

the socialist banner? (Two: ex- --

amples: Downtown Eastside
‘§ Residents “Association, “and the
f Vancouver Unemployed Action
Centre.) *: mo fe or te
“The work is almost endearingly
blatant: The .umbrella’ organiza-
tion for the 16 is. End: Legislated
hich is run by Jean:
‘socialist of the more
sort‘ who can agains
Grace ‘McCarthy *:: “the? >Tast
election. -!, -
‘e The organization’ $ very title’ isa
kick at the government, implying
it’ does ‘that. those Socred
villains legislate poverty. »
“AS one, would expect from, pro

single parent on GAIN might have
for food for a month. How much
does it cost to stay.at an expensive
: hotel for.one nigh we

B.C,

' There are heaps of such garbage
in the booklet, but no reference at
all to the fact that the great North

- American engine’ of ‘free enter-

prise capitalism is the envy of the
world, We are not told, either,
that the wealth generated by that
engine pays for the costly social
benefits that are at the service of

-. the poor. All we get is gloom

magnified through the glass of
socialist claptrap, and the implied

. lie that the provincial government

loves poverty. .
Do not search the booklet for
any mention of the ups and downs

‘of the market, either, or for men-

tion of how a35 per cent tariff on
shakes ° and.-
beyond the control of any, govern-
ment..in - Canada, © socialist or.
otherwise. - ‘

shingles | is:

Kids subjected to. this! stuff
could not be blamed:for cutting
their throats.

‘The ‘recommended reading
and viewing” is just as bad: ‘‘All
Work and No Pay"; ‘“‘The Wages
of Work"; Poverty in Canada’’,
etc.

This rotten little: booklet has
been accepted by the Vancouver
Schoo! Board, which is not sur-
prising, considering it is run by
Marxists and the BCTF. You can
look for it to be accepted i in North
Van, too, even: though, ‘trustee
Ross. Regan has fought a delaying
action:

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If the situation, were reversed, if
we had a socialist government and
someone tried to introduce an
anti-NDP, pro-capitalist booklet
into the schools, there would be
‘ast eruption of. volcano-like
power. As it is! this propaganda
has made little news and has

created even less media comment.

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anv French program
given highest marks —

A FIVE-MEMBER evaluation
team jhas given top marks to a
urlique French language program
being’ offered at Larson Elemen-
tary School in North Vancouver.

Programme Cadre, which in-
volves 80 students at the school, is
geared to B.C.'s French language
minority. The program aims to
help i\students retain their French
language and culture. (Parents of
eligible students often have French
as thelr mother tongue.)

Geoff Mills, director of the
Ministry of Education modern
languages branch and a member of

the evaluation team, told North-
Vancouver School Board Tuesday .

that) the Larson program excels in
a number of areas, including: the

level of French attained by stu-

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dents and the quality of teachers
and administration.

Parents are also pleased with the
program, he added.

“They're proud of it,” Mills’
said. “They think it’s one of the
best in the province. I think they're
right."

Programme Cadre is one of
three forms of French instruction
offered in B.C. schools alongside ,
basic French courses and an im-
mersion program.

The program not only provides
French language instruction, but
includes instruction of academic
courses in French. ,

About 1,500 students are enroll-
ed in Programme Cadre around -
the province.

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