Teachers: shape up or ship out

Dear Editor: ;

Canada has the highest paid teachers in the world and B.C. has the highest paid in Canada.

. They teach-the fewest number of days and hours, and have the smallest class sizes.

Our teachers have been coddled with all benefits, equipment, small class sizes, and ridiculously high numbers of support staff, and yet

“this: world’s “costliest ‘education system ‘turns out almost four

failures in 10, people who can nei- ..

ther read nor calculate. i -Canada’s system will pump out another: one’ million functionally illiterate into the work force this “decade, |! This deterioration of ‘classroom is ‘in. spite. of . the’ taxpayers, ‘through: poor: husbandry ‘by our ' trustees, paying a. 280% increase in. educational funding, in real terms, over the last three decades, “Wee must demand that our trustees demand excelience, that

», they. start’ managing, and that: the.

teachers’ federationno longer be

allowed to dictate their . wages,

their ~ teaching: days, their class sizes, ‘and their support staff, Why «hasn't: our minister. of

™ education put on a video series of

teaching and exercises-.on -each _ ‘specific school subject?

“A lecture and exercise. series on “video would mean that if teachers

went on strike, videos could be shown to the students of the best possible educator teaching the

course (it would probably be su-:

perior to 80% of our teachers). This would mean that that tax-

payer would no longer be held to..”

tansom.

Now that salary demands are in full swing we see the monopoly: set up their efficient propaganda ap- paratus to set up up for new con-

“ cessions.

{t should be no business of the teachers what the class size is. Trustees should set the size and if the teachers didn’t like it, ship oul.

Thanking Sally Ann volunteers

Dear Editor: As ‘one of the district leaders helping to organize the annual

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peal onthe North Shore, | would like to thank- all those volunteers who knocked on doors on May 3 seeking cash donations to fund the

- work of the Army.

There were thousands of them,

_including the area and zone lead-

ers who gave so-much of their time the preceding three months, and the supportive businesses and other organizations.

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. Everyone. should have ae ‘hearing test at least'once a

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‘Please plone for. an

This happens in every other line of work. Even the doctors cannot dictate their proposed health care program.

We must.consider it a bloated, unaccountable, out of touch, and out of control monopoly when 50 employees of the North Van- couver School District carn over $90,000 for their piddly work year.

Compare this with our premier's salary of $78,000 and we can sce something is wildly wrong.

Neil S. Thompson West Vancouver

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Alyson Wilts North Vancouver

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A Public Hearing will be held on MONDAY »JUNE if, 1993 at 7: 30. m. inthe Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, B.C, to receive represen-tations in connection with the following proposed amendments to the “City of North Vancouver Zoning Map" which is an integral part of Bylaw No. 3778, being “Zoning Bylaw 1967": a

Bylaw No. 6408

inthe hatched pattern on the map beside) from RS One- Family Residential Z Zoite to RT-1 Two- Family Residential Zone, to permit development of a two-storey, side-by ~side duplex 0 on’ the site,

APPLICANT: NOORT DEVELOPM ENTS

“WEST 16TH STREET

» JONES AVENUE

WEST “15TH “STRE eT

- Bylaw No. 6410

To amend the text of the Zoning Bylaw as it pertains to Duplex Lot Size.’ Bylaw No. 6410 will me prohibit Two-Family Residential Use ona lot with anarea less than 5900 square feet LGB. 11 Sq. m),

m except in the RC Zones.

APPLICANT: CITY OF NORTH VANCOUVER

ALL PERSONS who believe that their interest ‘in property is affected by the proposed Bylaws shall mie be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard— in person, by attorney, or by petition. The [/ proposed bylaws and relevant background documents may be inspected at the office of the City. ; Clerk between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (except Statutory Holidays) from MAY:.” 31 to JUNE 14, 1993. Written submissions will be accepted up to and including JUNE 14,1993 however submissions will not be accepted after the conclusion of the Public Hearing. NOTICE of

this Public Hearing i is pursuant t to Section 957 of the Municipal Act of British Columbia.

Eleanor M. Rienstra, Deputy City Clerk