Trustee to meet parents

PARENTS WILL get an opportu-
nity to let appointed trustee Bob
Smith know what they think of the
deficit-cutting options for School
District 44 outlined in his 70-page
report.

By lan Nobie
News Reporter

Smith will discuss his report,
released March 15, with parents at 7:30
p-m. on Monday night at Carson
Graham secondary.

And he has 13 other meetings sched-
uled over the next week with groups
wanting to comment on the interim
report.

“I’m looking for feedback,” said
Smith. “The intention of that report is
not to make a bunch of recommenda-
tions right now, but to put out there what
it will take to balance.”

The interim report addresses a deficit
that Smith said would have climbed to
$4 million for the 1996-97 school year.

The district also expects to have a $5
million debt by the end of this school
year in June — a debt Smith said could
be wiped out by selling school board
property.

Smith’s other targets include special

education, custodial service hours, the
purchasing department, and French
immersion classes at Brooksbank ele-
mentary.

In his interim report, Smith said he
expects moving Brooksbank immersion
students to Ross Road and Larson
schools will allow the district to cut 2.6
full-time teaching positions for a
$130,000 savings.

That option does not sit well with
Christina . . .
Schnetzler,
who has one
child in the
{00-strong
Brooksbank
immersion
program. Some
students would
have to drop °

out of the French j immersion program .

because they lack transportation to other
schools, she said.

“The poorer families would be the
ones that have to drop out,” she said.
Schnetzler called Smith's estimation
that one-third of students would transfer
to the school’s English program reason-
able.

Some of those students would not be
able to go into the same grade they
would: have had they stayed in the
French program. Schnetzler explained

that students in French immersion begin
English-language instruction in Grade 3
and are considered caught up to their
English-schooled peers by Grade 5 or
Grade 6.

“This means that all
Grade | to 5 students who will be forced
to transfer to the the English program
will need extra help with their English
reading and writing skills,” she wrote to
Smith.

“Who will pay for that and what will
that do for those children’s self esteem?”

She said Ross Road and Larson will
both undergo rcnovations next year, lim-
iting class, library and gym space.

She added parents of immersion stu-
dents rely on each other for transporta-
tion, child care and support.

Schnetzler said implementing the
option will “ ‘just completely destroy that
community we've built over the years.”

Smith said transferring students will
fill French immersion classes in the
other two schools.

Smith said he understands people try-
ing to fight what they fear is an erosion
in what they have. But he wants those
pointing out the limits of his cost-cutting
options to also tell him what is appropri-
ate “because we still have to save the

“money in the final analysis.” His final

teport is to be given to Education
Minister Paul Ramsey by March 30.

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West Vancouver School

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North Shore Municipalities, :
school districts and the health
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North Vancouver City
Council: Monday, March 25,
6 p.m. Lower Lonsdale Lands
Revenue Alfocation Policy

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ing and development budget;
council indemnity. review

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bylaw report, rezoning appli-

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North, ' Vancouver
District: Couneil: Regular
council meeting postponed to

“; Monday, April. 1; however,

- there’ will be a ‘Secondary

public, at 7 p.m., Monday,
March 25.

West Vancouver District
Council: Monday, March 25,
7:45 p.m. Lower. Caulfeild
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of reference; noise contro!
bylaw exemption at
Whytecliff Park and Park
Royal Shopping Centre
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advertising banners; blasting:

report; official * community
plan amendment; sign bylaw
amendment; citizen appoint-
ments; cancellation of April 8

‘ council meeting due to Easter.

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District 44: No meeting this
week. The next meeting will

District 45: No meeting this

week. The next meeting will

be held on Tuesday, April 9.
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