IF THESE Grade § students at Clarence Michiel
Schoot nad their way, education minister Gordon
Wilson might be the next premier of the province.
Wilson loured the school while on a visit here Nov.

19 and spent part of his time signing autographs

during one classroom slop. Just the day before, he
announced he was in on the NDP leadership race.
Wilson also visited Caledonia Senior Secondary.

Culture course reviewed

IF THE school board doesn't take a stand on the teach-
ing of cultural awareness, it will set a dangerous prece-
dent, says a Gitxsan from Hazelton.

Marjory McRae, education advisor for the Gitxsan
Government Commission, made the comment after three
Grade 7 boys were suspended Nov. 9 for. refusing, by
order of their parents, to take part in a Gitxsan cultural
aWaTeNess Course. : -

McRae is worried about the message that-will be sent
if the board allows students to opt out of the course.

"The thing ‘that “I find’ very fearful is’ if- the school |”
board doesn't stand firm on this position, they are going”

to set a precedent," said McRae. "Is it is al a point now
where parents can choose what course their kids can
take in school?" ,

The boys are back in school, but they are not attend-
ing the course pending an appeal by the parents, said
Sharon Beedle, acting superintendent of the Coast
Mountain school district.

The district agreed to review the course, following a
Nov. 15 meeting between the boys' parents, Beedle,
school trustee Charlie Willson, and principal Bruce
Cookson. The will look at what is taught, how it is
taught and to which grades.

Beedle said she has has yet to see a snowbail effect,
with other parents questioning the course.

But Leslie, Veltmeyer, a member of the New Hazel-
ton School Parent Advisory Committee, ‘said. the-issue ”

has sparked some concerns of her own.

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“IF it's cultural awareness of one group for seven
years, it doesn't matter to me whut group it was, | would
say it should be an option," said the mother of Grade 3
McRae said that her committee was "absolutely ap-
palled" at the action taken by the boys' parents and
added that she feels sorry for the children themselves,

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find the saddest.” ; ~ ,
“She'said the point of the course is to teach under-
standing of the Gitxsan culture and is part of-a province-
wide initiative to‘implement' First Nations studies in the
schools, The class, held fora half hour every week, has
been taught in the Hazelton: school for the ‘past five
years. -The three sets of. parents ‘said they didn't want
their children to attend: because of the course's content.

Oné report suggested one of the boys had come home
saying the course was. teiching ‘that’ the ‘natives were
superior because they cared more about nature:

“That is an interpretation," said Beedle. "Some cul-
tures have been: better at doing ‘Gne-thing:than another
culture at various times throughout their-history.”

She said that when the teachers talked about steward--
ship of the environment practised by the Gitxsan, be-
cause they depended on using it every year, the students’
probably took that as meaning the Gitxsan were belter at
protecting nature at that time. fhe

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