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THE OTHER day I had the misfortune to read the West
Van Teachers Association budget presentation to the
school board for 1987/88, and worse English and leakier

logic I have rarely seen.

The opening sentence of the
atrocity in question went this
way:

“The W.V.T.A. Education
Finance Committee makes the
following recommendations bas-
ed strictly on what is required to
make the system run effectively
in the context of the way in
which the system is presently
structured and in consideration
of the expectations of. the West
Vancouver community and the
larger society.”’

Ugh!

If I were the West Van School
Board | ‘would have told the
WVTA executive to buzz off and
do some homework. Even the
professors couldn’t do worse.

The association is spreading
the false news that the teachers’
lot is not a happy one.

The poor things claim, for in-

stance, that a 16 per cent wage.

increase would be necessary ‘‘to
recoup the losses of the last five
years.’’. Not mentioned is that
they weve grossly overpaid to
start wi.h.

The: average teacher’ s* wage in
Wes: Van as of September, 1985,
was $38,220, compared with a

| provincial average of $37,190.

Since then there has been a 2.9 .

per cent hike (including incre-
‘Ments) so today’s average would
be about . $39,330. Which is
enough to keep body and soul
together, I would say.

. Reading this litany of woes,

one might think that the teachers
were expiring in some kind of
gulag.

“Teacher stress’? is big with
them, they being ‘tmaximum on
grid,’’ whatever that is. They also
say that the working week is 50
hours. No evidence is produced
in proof thereof (assigned time is
25 hours), but they flaunt a study
done in the Armstrong School
District that claims a 50-hour
work week for that area.

So what? Is West Vancouver in
Armstrong? Besides, the teachers
in Armstrong may work long
hours because, they like their
jobs. I like my job and work
about 70 hours a week at it.
Should I complain to my
publishers?

The small point that teachers
work on only about 194 days a
year is also ignored.

Teachers ‘‘should be able to
enjoy life,’’ it is stated. Well, so
should we all, Can’t always
manage it, though.

All kinds of work-dodging _
devices are proposed, like the
employing of teacher aides,
markers and supervision aides.
‘It seems ludicrous to pay
$40,000 a year for teachers to
Xerox and collate tests,’’ weeps
the WVTA.

Yes. But it would be even more
ludicrous to employ others to do
the photo-copying while the
$40,000-a-year-people pick their
noses.

fi. VAN CITY COUNCIL
Beer garden causes concern

A FLAG football tournament’s planned beer garden is
causing concern among ¢ity council members, and area res-
idents will be asked how they feel about the idea.

Despite a staff recommendation
calling for rejection of the event

. application, council withheld mak-

ing a decision Monday until orga-

- nizers canvass residents.

“We did have a bad repuration
two years ago,’’ said North Shore
Flag Football League secretary
Richard Barry. ‘‘(The event) is go-
ing to be well policed.”

A similar tournament two years

ago left nearby residents fuming at
the: mess that followed the event.

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON
News Reporter

4
“Tt just wasn’t arganized,’’ Barry
told the News.

But this time things will be much
different, the group assured city
council. .

“Weve changed our whole

board (of directors) and we want-

to organize this league better,’
said Barry, who wants the tour-

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What next?! If confer they must,
let them do it in the classrooms
when the kids have gone home.
Teachers’ conferences only lead
to more Stress. For the taxpayer.

Give us a break, you guys.

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Memo to West Van School
Board: why, in a district. of
declining school population, do
you now have two assistant su-
perintendents, at salaries of be-
tween $60,000 and $66,000,
where there used to he one?

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Memo to Mr. J.J. Andrews of
West Van, who states ina letter to
the editor that I described his wife
Jancis as ‘‘trash.’*

Pardon me, suh! { wouldn't
dream of saying that about a lady.
I said her diatribe in the Globe &
Mail was trash. There’s a
difference.

Mr. Andrews would like to §
meet me. Is it to be pistols,
swords or a glass of beer, J.J.?
Let me have your phone number,
old boy.

ae *

Paul Fromm of Toronto,
research director for Citizens for
Foreign Aid Reform, is speaking
at North Van's International
Plaza Hotel at 2 p.m. on Sunday:
His topic: ‘‘Immigration and
More Mulroney Follies.’’
Recommended.

nament to be an annual event.

About 300 people a day will
likely attend the three-day tour-
nament, he said.

Set for April 18 to 20 at North
Vancouver's Loutet Park, the
event is expected to draw about 16
flag football teams from as far
away as Victoria and Calgary.

“The main concern I'd have if I
were a resident in the area is the
aftermath,’’ said Ald. John
Braithwaite, who suggested asking
residents for their comments.

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