A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 1, 1993

Briefly

PREMIER MIKE HAR-
COURT says the changes
“announced to the Year 2000
“program keep the best parts
~ of education reform and dis-
-card the rest.

‘Increased emphasis on
basics, standards and
evaluation .should . ensure
parents. know whal’s ¢x-
pected of students and how
thelr childis doing, he suid.

will be a part of all report
cards -from Grade 4 on,
replacing the anecdotal
reports that were part of the
intermediate | program.
‘Structured written
reporis”’ are promised.

@ PROVINCIAL stan-
dards for achievement will
be developed and distrib-
uted to parents.

- gg STODENTS WHO
FAIL {to complete a clearly
defined curriculum at the in-
termediate and senior levels

the year.
Only the ‘kindergarten to
Grade 3 classes will retain

cept that, children progress
at their own speed, advanc-
‘ing with their peer group
regardless of achievement.

The changes ‘describe ‘a

* basics’? — making the main
goal that students leam
reading, | writing and. ‘rith-
- “inetic.. 5

tions.

tra.money will go toward:

dren into eeu classes.

@: LETTER: GRADES --

can be held back ta repeat -

the original Year 2000 con-"

B®: BACK TO BASICS: »

“renewed emphasis “on the ,

Boe “INSTEAD - “OF:
“Primary” ‘Year.1’, ‘they'll
be calling it ‘indergarten
once again: The names of
_ each grade level go back 10:
the © traditional ~ kindergar=.
tex/Grades * 4412 dexigna- *

| $3. 3 MILLION in ex- =

putting special needs chil-—

Year 2000 “betrayed”

OUTGOING SCHOCL trustce
"Edna Cooper has lashed out at the
provincial government’s decision
to dismantle much of the Year
2000 program.

*T cannot even begin to tell you

how disappointed I am,’’ Cooper .

sald following the announcement. .
“This is really betrayal ofa lot of
people.’”

Cooper, who is ending a long”

~-career on the -school-board, sat-on=-

the provincial intermediate pro-
gram steering commitice,

' The announcement by educa- -

tion minister: Art Charbonncaw-
retreats from the most basic Year.
2000 concepts — that children
would progress at their own rales
— and signals a return to a more
traditional, basics-oricnted educa-
tion system.

The program began in 1989 un-
der the Social Credit government
in response to a royal commission
that recommended action to baltle
a 30 per cent dropout sate in B.C.

The idea that children would
-not be held back, but would in-
sicad be allowed to progress with
their peers was a seen.as a key to
. keeping children in school.
‘But it spawned fears that a two-
‘tiered education sysittm was on
the horizon, with public schools

~. for the working class and private

schools for the elite,
Those fears were based. on a
_ lack of information and a fear of
the unknown, Coopersays.
“What we've done is”

. responded to fears about the fu-
“‘ture'instead of meeting the chal-
lenge of what we can do in the fu-

ture,”? she said. -‘'They stepped

- back into the 19th century instead

- of forward to the Zist.? -
‘Cooper says hundreds of
“teachers, parents, trustees’ and.
slaff. spent years working on the
_program.

. Those people ‘believed ‘they

- were working on something-at a
grassroots level — something that
would grow from the bottom up.

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Instead, she said, they found

their work chopped off at- the.

knees by a government that last
weck reversed its-stance and im-

posed. a top-down model of edu-:

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“All of those peoples’ efforls,

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Year 2000,”" she said.

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“They had -to put a iol of trust
in the people who were develop-
ing this. thing,’’ she. said. ‘*The

reason they had that trust is. be:

cause they knew it was happening
across a broad spectrum.”

“They are. not going to have ~

any trust for a long, long time’ ‘to
come.’

betrayed — many: of them
teachers.” co

"There are hundreds aE people |
in the province who: {cel really

Although Cooper contends ac-

ceptance and understanding of the —

Year 2000 program was growing,

.a° substantial body of public

opinion opposed it and that is

‘what drove the government deci-

sion last week,

_She says people feared the pro-
gram because many knew little
about it.

“You hear every single thing
that’s wrong with the school sys-

Instead of defending the pro-
cess, Victoria caved in to those
unfounded fears, Cooper said.

If there is anything to be thank-
ful of, Cooper said, it is that the

philosophy of the original Year

2000 program still exists and that
many teachers will continue to
use it.

“Teachers found new ways of
doing things and I think they will

‘ continue to do that.”’

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