A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 14, 2001 From front © Teachers take limited action — action plan if the concerti went ahead. ; Meanwhile, Caledonia Senior Secondary's upcaming musical production, Crazy For You, will go ahead as . planned on Dec. J and 8. : ars teachers can participate in “cost recovery”. activi- lies during phase.one of the job action, ht costs thousands af dollars to purchase the rights ta perform most Broadway musicals, money tlat’s re- couped through ticket sales. a “We had a question on that, but fundraising is being handled by parents and students," Rowe said. “It can gD. ahead.” - : As well, teachers won’ be producing report cards | until a settement.is.reached,- ~~. ; Most primary. and elementary. teachers in Terrace were supposed to submit first term report cards yesterday so they could be-sent home to parents Nov. 19. a “Parents are used lo receiving feedback in the form of a report card,” Smallbrugge said. “The absence of that is foing lo raise some concern.” Teachers will continue to meet with parents during *- school hours -as long as the principal can: cover ‘the classroom. mon Te At a press conference last week, teachers representing Terrace's public schools ‘confirmed ‘theyre ‘willing ta fight for a settlement that maintains class-size limits and prevents the “mainstreaming” of special needs. students. The teachers say the last contract’ offer would ‘strip away both of those hard-won rights. “We're not about to go back and turn the classroom back into 40: crawling students,” said Caledonia Senior Secondary: teacher Al Lehmann. “It's not going to happen." - °. Copper Mountain Elementary: teacher Richard Eckert ~~ said he had seven special needs students in his class last year. He filed two grievances to get extra support. »'$33,000-a year. » “needed to fight for that,” hesaid. ~ Debra Thame, a teacher at Clarence Michiel Elemen- lary, said if the. district can use its-own discretion when : _... assigning: special needs children ta classes, teachers The BCTF tald the TDTU Thursday Caledonia’s fine ~ won't be able to meet the needs of all their students. _ “is going to be a huge .and dramatic difference in the quality of education for children," Thame said. Veralynn Munsen of-E.T, Kenney Primary said tea- _chers already have a tough time getting an hour or two per week of learning assistance for special needs stu- dents.) 2 Ue es oe. “This little bit of support children are getling will dis- appear,” she warned.” pees hag Teachers say they need to make.more.money to help ~Feeruit graduates to-a proféssion that sées. 40 per cent of ‘Tew teachers quit in the the: first five years. -. They know it’s a hard sell.” ee, -Al-Lehmann’said teachers undergo’a lengthy. apprenti- ceship, taking six years of post-secondary. education be- ‘fore they can start-a job where it takes another 11 years ‘to reach. the to level on the salary grid. - Lehmann said teachers are just-as important to the local economy as. Skeéna Cellulose. = - ““School: District 82: is the largest employer in this community,” Lehmann said. “It doesn’t hurt to-have the provincial.government whack us a raise.” The average teacher ‘in the district’ now earns about __ Skeena Junior instructor Greer Kaiser said she works 60-hour weeks and is on the verge of burnout. ~“Tdon't know how much longer I can do this,” Kaiser said, adding potential job ‘applicants are reluctant to come to Terrace because it's considered remote. “I'm worried about. the: north,” Kaiser said. “If we havea mass exodus from our school district, gone are the days of an influx of teachers from Nova Scotia.” Gov't will get less than nothing for SCI THE GOVERNMENT has those terms. But they are’ Another NWBC re- Another requires the Willpower — On sale right now at Weight Watchers, Funny thing about willpower: you have.a . lot more of it on a full stomach than an empty one. 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Ltd. _ One of those terms is ~ that the province “accept Niability.for: any. environ-- . “-mental costs discavered j The offer tabled in court jpop ee says Mercer will pay the. quirement is. the province promise to repeal legisia- ios that would force pulp : mills to embark on major Spending to eliminate by the end af 2002°a type of -effluent: called halogena- ted organic compounds. - the future but linked’to-~° -past. SCI operations. 2 -<: ..That-raises the’ potential — Of big-costs for Victoria if, ° for .example,. soils ‘under. Skeena's mills are one day’ - found'to:be contaminated. “Another: condition re- guired B.C. to allow ‘the air emissions. limits so it -can’ burn. more. hog fuel during @ major work at the mill in 2003-04. 0 pulp mill:to exceed normal province to pick up sever- ance costs for an estima- ted 324 employees NWBC says would be terminated. NWEC also wanted to take SCI over debt free - 0 amounts owing to any creditors — and a 50 per cent reduction in property ‘taxes by the City of Prince Rupert for five years. ' NWBC president Da- niel Veniez said those terms had all been agreed is now worth around $19. - million, according to the: - court monitor, but declines | by about $1 million -per weeks eS "At that rate, the final... ‘purchase price to’ thepro- °° vince could end up as low as $3 million, some of that going to the TD bank... The province would also pay SCl compensa- tion of $15 to $20 million for timber it lost due to the the Nispa’a treaty, That compensation. cost - ~ which would have disap- peared had SCI- pone bankrupt ~ means the pro-. vince will effectively. end up paying at least $10 mil- lion to get out of Skeens. That’s on top. of the more than $400 million in debt the provinciat govern- ment has already conce- ded it will have to absorb no matter what happens. And future. Skeena costs could come back to haunt the government years from now depending on the con- ditions it accepts. The monitor's report in- dicates the government has signed Mercer's term sheet “indicating. it con- Siders that it can satisfac" torily meet the terms in- volving its cooperation.” The report doesn’ name Specialist recruited A SEARCH that lasted more than a year and a half by the Terrace and Area Health Council has ended with the recruitment of an_obstetrician-gyneco- logist. Dr.. Johan Adam Van Heerden Kruger, a-South African, is expected. here Within four. to six months, Says health council chief executive officer Dieter Kuntz. aa , “He comes: with good training and experience,” said Kuntz of the special- ist. Van Heerden Kruger vi-. sited Terrace the first part of October, a trip paid for by the health council, so. he could tour facilities and meet other physicians. 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