Gov't not responsible |

for school closures,
says education boss

FIVE SCHOOL closures ordered by Coast
Mountain Schoo! District 82 aren’t the re-
sponsibility of the provincial government,
education minister Christy Clark said last
“week,

~ “Its a school district decision,” said
Clark who emphasized the importance of
local people making decision that will af-
fect schools and students locally.

- Parkside Elementary and Copper
Mountain closed for good last week as
did two schools in Kitimat and one in
. Stewart.

Mountainview Elementary, which was
to be a new school on the bench and
which is nearly finished construction, will
be mothballed.

“], in Victoria, am in no position to
make -a better decision than the school
board,” Clark said. “They are local.”

She suggested a suffering economy in
the north may be one reason this area is

seeing declining enrolment.

"As long as. the economy is suffering
so desperately we will continue to see
enrolment decline.”

’ Clark did say she is aware of the local
situation, “I have certainly been in con-
tact with Roger Harris about it,” said
Clark last week. “I know he’s met with
parents, I know he’s met with the union,
the: school board and he has certainly
made sure that input is on my desk.”

School dis-
j tricts across
| the province
have had
their budgets
frozen for
three years.
But they are
also expec-
ted to pay for
a portion of
teacher sal-
ary increases
with those
frozen bud-
gels,

And declin-
ing enrol-
ments mean
districts re-

Christy Clark

ceive less money.

Clark acknowledged that teacher pay
increases are one reason school districts
are struggling to find solutions to deal
with less money.

She said the decision to have the pro-
vince pay for half of that raise and leave
school districts to finding ways of paying
for the other half was the most fair solu-
tion the provincial. government had at the
time.

“There just isn’t any more money to go
around,” Clark said.

Survey says students bullied

’ PROVINCIAL education
minister Christy Clark says
the number of children
whe don’t feel safe in their
schools is too high.

Results of surveys con-
ducted by the province
show 22 per cent of Grade
‘10 students are bullied.

“We should be striving
at-every school that we get
100 per. cent of kids saying
‘they feel safe in school,”

Clark

said
“Children can’t learn in an
environment where they
don’t feel safe.”

She said solutions to
problems such as bullying
need to be made at the
school level. Newly deve-
loped . school
councils — designed to
allow for more parental
input — are expected to be
key to making decisions.

Schools in B.C. will
have a council made up of
three parents, a principal
and a teacher. It's expec-
ted to evaluate how stu-
dents are performing and
set goals for improvement.

School boards have to
consult with councils on
how money is allocated
and the direction of. ser-
vices and programs in
schools.

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