12 - Friday, September 13, 1985 - North Shore News

Schoo! survey shows parents concerned

From Page 1 forming parent school coun- polled said they would not the Gallup survey, two- posed to giving teachers the ‘‘Let's Talk About Schools” level of provincial priority as ils. permit strikes or fockouts thirds of the public and half right to strike. See Most stimulating the economy, § Three-quarters of those for teachers. Similarly, in the professionals were op- Trustee Roy Dungey, local Page 14 ahead of health care, protec- ting the environment or nu- clear disarmament.

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Marshall told trustees that . ° . " consensus of the survey, : e ¢ ® ° along with results from the : >. hy mA nt e. 4 district’s own survey, show- ed British Columbians and North Vancouverites to be extremely concerned with B.C.’s embattled education system.

“The findings point to the public’s desire for increased input into and cooperation within the education system,’’ Marshall said, “and a desire to remove fractiousness and politics from the education system.”’

He added that the general public opinion of the people is one of concern for what they see as a deteriorating education system.

According to ministry. survey figures, 70 per cent of the public polled indicated that ‘existing levels of school funding failed to live up to expectations.

Marshall pointed out that though 70 per cent of the public and 80 per cent of education professionals favored the idea of increas- ing school board autonomy, 56 per cent and 44 per cent of the same two groups were opposed to giving those same boards the authority to raise taxes beyond those determined by the province as being sufficient to sustain basic levels of service.

According to Gallup, 71 per cent of education pro- fessionals and 51 per cent of the public were willing to ‘ * @ pay higher taxes to increase ° e -“ 2¢« «© ©

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‘“‘Let’s Talk About Schools’? showed parents to be increasingly eager to have a voice in what goes on in their local schools with some 80 per vent wanting to become involved in school- ing ‘‘as much as possible’.

That same number coupled with 75 per cent of profes- sionals supported the idea of

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