By Ellsworth Dickson

What we need on this rainy afternoon is some levity so here is a totally trivial question.

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This issue the Inquiring Reporter _asks: “If you were Stranded. -on a desert island, what would you like to take with you?”

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Gary Laurin North Vancouver

Id like to take the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders with me.

Cindy Simpson North Vancouver I'd like to take my boyfriend with me.

Bob Michels North Vancouver

Id like to take 3,000 pounds of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a companion, preferably female.

March Verhiel North Vancoever.

and ai couple records with me.

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The other side of the coin

“FROM PAGE 2

dividual student differences, including those who have been mainstreamed, are ‘essential components in producing that lesson you imply is just “turned on” when the teacher walks into the classroom. Individual help, marking, and _new. preparation keep teachers on a perpetual motion wheel throughout the school year.

The tie-in of ad- ministrative staff, declining - enrolment,and high costs was very neat. Your hypothesis neglects to consider such basic factors as: con- siderably lower provincial funds being made “available to local school boards, constant operating costs regatdless of an enrolment of 19,542 (1977) or 18,739 (1978), and the inevitably rising inflation which neither

ur. federal nor our provincial governments have been able to solve. Remember, also, that this district has closed two schools and will close another at the end of this term. ,

. The present - bureacracy was approved by the Board in 1974. The rationale in favor of its inception is available from the Secretary- Treasurer of the Board. Their salaries are equivalent to others in similar positions - an article in your last issue quotes a department manager of a local store as earning “about $75,000 a year”.

Your criticism of the trustees is a difficult one to fathom. Are you suggesting that they shouldn't be supportive of teachers? Is it not the teachers who im-

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plement tbe policies and the directives of the Ministry and the Board? Who is better qualified to assess what is happening than those in- volved? Should the trustees not be the guardian of the students’ needs? If not they, then who?

You have made many accusations. but you have offered’ no specific con- structive criticism for the improvement of education in the province of British Columbia.

Yourstruly, E. (Ted) M. Archibald -President’

North Vancouver Teachers’

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District, City ‘ isenfranchised’

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had, in effect, disen- franchised both the District and the City of North Vancouver.

~ (Fhe other North Van seat, North Vancouver- Seymour, has been vacant since the resignation last

October of former Transport

Minister Jack Davis).

Gibson’s abrupt depar- ture, Lakes emphasized, had

left local taxpayers with no-

voice in Victoria to protest the five per cent ceiling and other restrictions on municipal budgets recently ordered by Finance Minister Wolfe.

Lake’s motion read: “That this council request the Premier to call byelections for the two vacant North Vancouver seats at the

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earliest permissable date, to . ensure the representation of the City and: District in the provincial Legislature”.

The resolution was pgssed unanimously.

If he goes by the rule book, however, Premier Bennett has no need to hurry unduly. Byelections can be postponed for up to six months.

This means that a byelection in North Van- Seymour need not be called until early April if the Premier so decides. In North Van-Capilano the call to the polis could be put off until mid-July.

Meanwhile, Bennett is

‘widely expected to call a

provincial general election

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