Wednesday, January 9, 1957.

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

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We are pleased to
announce the ap-
pointment of TOM
MASON, formerly of
Beath Motors (Wil-
liams Lake) Ltd. as

ear salesman with
our firm. Tom will
welcome the con-

tinued acquaintance
s of his many friends
and business associ-

WILLIAMS LAKE MOTORS LTD.

In the meantime the accom-
modation picture in our schools
has worsened. Ron Friesen, prin-
cipal of one of the more crowd
ed schools, Williams Lake Ele-
mentary, last week gave a com-
prehensive report of the problem
in his institution. His problems
are repeated in other fast grow-
ing centres, particularly Lac La
Hache and 100 Mile House. We
are printing the report in order
to place this educational prob-
lem before those persons who

will shortly be asked to vote on

another referendum for the dis-

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. 1957 RATES

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FRANCES E. LEWIS

trict.

Williams Lake Elementary
School has an enrolment of 437,
with six classrooms in the main
building, one in the annex, one

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Local School Crowding Typical Of
Situation Throughout District

Just a year ago, a school building réferendum for
District 27 was presented to the ratepayers. It was de-
feated, not on its merits or on consideration of need,
but because of what is considered by many to be an
iniquitous land tax, from which the district’s share of
capital expenditure for schools must be raised.

five blocks away at Columbus
Hall, one in thé high school.

SMEDLEVILLE

Grade I - VI — Total enrol-
ment 72; riding to school 50;
walking to school 22.

‘Transportation is by one taxi,
trucks and cars. The last two
groups of riders have very un-
certain transportation, and along
with the pedestrians, suffer these
ill effects. :

1. Their attendance is below
average.’ 2. Their tardiness is
above average. 3. Their progress
is below average. 4. Their record
of illness is above average.
Their classmates’ progress is
also adversely affected.

The distances are too great
and the road is very dangerous,

Mr. Chamberlain has recom-
mended that a several-room
school be built in the Smedley-
ville area and I heartily concur.
I only hope that the urgency of
the situation is fully understood.

WILLIAMS LAKE ELEM.

Our situation will undoubtedly
by aggravated In Sept., 1957,
and shifts will have to be in-
creased. May I, at this time, pre-
sent some of the detrimenttal
aspects of shifting to pupils,
staff, parents, and supervisor:

1. The school day is short-
ened.

2. The afternoon shift is
tired on arrival at school.

3. The feeling of possession,

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Fally and to
one classroom is missing.
Padded Van 4. Everything is rushed.
5. Individual instruction is
limited. ~
Phone 57-R-2 6. School tone and standards

are lowered.

7. Staff morale suffers.
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boards, desks, and display space
must be shared by two Classes.
9. Dany weieswUlscussions by

staff is impossible.

10. Staff projects
minimum.

11. Organized sports activities
are possible to only a few.

12 Parents, especially moth-
ers, have extra duties because of
children on extra shifts.

13. Ability grouping has to
be discarded to some extent.

14. Acceleration and deceler-
ation have been discarded.

This is my fifth year at this
school, and every year, but the
first has presented accommoda-
tion problems. I have used St.

are at a

Peter’s Hall, Rosary Hall, The |*

Elks Hall, Columbus Hall, and
the High School for extra class-
room space.

We are using two basement
roms that can only be consider-
ed as emergency classrooms.
Heating has always been diffi-
cult. They would serve well as
projection and manual art rooms

— but not for full time class
use.

Financial expenditures on the
annex have been continuous —
rewiring, heating units, lino,
decorating, roofing, etc., and it
is still a substandard classroom.
It’s sagging, the floor is “very
uneven, a new chimney must be
built, the lighting is still inade-
quate, and it’s very unattractive.

The main building is a frame
structure. The walls are not in-
sulated, door jams sag, a fire
door is slammed and the build-
ing shakes, and the floors in sey-
eral classrooms upstairs have no
pillar supports and must be ex-
amined by a building expert for
potential danger.

STUDENTS “PEOPLE”

Yet we are proud of the junior
citizens we have helped to train.
But we have never been able to
give them the education they de-
serve because of the limitations
inherent in our plant. Our pu-
pils are not just “little kids.”
We see them as “people” with
needs, tastes and interests of
their own. I don’t think it is
enough to cram them into a
roe; with @esks. They d-

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Still wearing her blue-skirted
Olympic uniform, Hungary’s star!
swimmer, Vali Gyenge, 23. flew
to Toronto from Vancouver where
she was met by her fiance, Janos
Garay, at right, whom she'll)
marry “very soon.” The young|
couple, was to have married in
Budapest but Garay, one of the
lop-echelon leaders in the

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native land when Russian ianks
and troops moved in on a nouse-
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fighters. At the conclusion of the
1956 Olympic games in Mel-
bourne, Vali also. “fled to
Canada where she plans lo make
a new life with her soon-to-be
husband.

ganized sports and other muscle-
and-mind developing activities.
They need to meet in assembly
where the patterns of citizenship
are established. They need vis-
ual aids, art, and music, and
places where they can participate
in these activities. They also
need and appreciate comfort-
able, functional, and beautiful
surroundings.

The staff, too, requires work-
ing room, a staff room in which!
to plan jointly, to discuss prob-!
lems, and to rest. They need
the privacy of a washroom away
from the children.

The nurse needs a room that
at least contains a sink and quiet
for her ministrations. Ours is a
partly partitioned section of a
badly-needed cloakroom.

I need an office in which a
5 = Ss

without asking staff and steno-
grapher to depart.

Space is so limited that I test
children in the janitor’s room or
the staff room.

Now, many schools in B.C.
have satisfied those needs —
most schools accept these needs
as being perfectly normal. We
do, too.

I might add that these needs
are not primarily for the con-
venience of staff — they, are to
enable us to give the children in
this attendance area the best
education possible. The most
frequently repeated complaint
I've received from staff in this
school is; “If I only had the
room, the time, and the facili-

ties to give my class wha it
needs.”
When the Board considers

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