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6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 13,1989. |

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: by Stephanie. Wiebe ,

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Christmas gift shopping can
be 4 real pain. It’s not easy to
match the right gift with its re-
cipient, not deplete your wallet,
and feel good about your pur-
chase. Christmas shopping is
one of those activities that
works better in theory than in
-real life.

"Do you ever wonder how
‘famous and rich and dignified
‘people do their Christmas
shopping? Like, what does the
Pope get his mother for Christ-

~ mas? I have trouble envisioning
“the Pope standing in line at
Woolworth’s with a pair of

gardening gloves or ordering a
‘robe from the Sears catalogue.
And then there’s the Prince
Philip — what does he get for
the Queen? Doesn’t she pretty
much have it all already? That
must be a real tough shopping
expedition. t

And what about Mother
Theresa? Surely there’s a -
relative standing in a depart-
ment store somewhere, wonder-
ing just what to get “Auntie”
this year — wouldn’t you feel
dumb handing her a pair of —
slippers? ;
° Think about all the famous
and wealthy people in this
world, What would you get for

- gld cousin Don, now-known as

Donald Trump? (‘‘Gee, we

- used to send books, but now ..

that seems kinda cheap... ’’).
Or maybe you usually send
your nephew, Michael J. Fox,
a scarf or some handkerchiefs,
but now that he’s a famous
movie star you’d feel a little
silly doing that. There’s an
endless list of Christmas shopp-
ing problems out there.

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what gifts Princess Diana and
Prince Charles exchange. Will
she get him one of those new
electric nose-hair trimmers?
Will he give her an Epilady?
Arid does he get angry when it
goes ‘‘on sale”’ two days after
he bought it?
~ Thank God my own friends
and relatives are not famous
and not rich. Thank God the ©
Queen’s not my cousin and the
Pope is not my uncle. I could
never handle the pressure.

And thank God, most of the
people I know could always use
a new pair of slippers.

The classroom revolutio

Terrace’s 747th Squadron Air Cadets hel
Christmas tea and bazaar held Dec. 5
Stephen Logan, Rick Boehm, Cory Barre

ped out as wait
at the Terracevi

Michael Back, who was just too busy to stop for a picture.

ers and busboys at the sixth annual .
ew Lodge. They are (left to right)
tt, Earl Stewart and Jasbir Jawanda. Missing is

This is the second article in a five-part series by Terrace Review
freelance writer and former school trustee Nancy Orr on the. out-
come of the 1989 Royal Commission on Education.

‘“<Qur:- major concern remains
with the learners of British Col-
umbia,’’ says the Sullivan Royal
Commission on Education.
‘“‘The Commission believes that
the most important people who
should be represented in the con-
sultative process are the
parents.”’ —_

The new School Act, Bill 67,

produced by the Ministry of
Education, has taken the con-
tributors to the Royal Commis-

sion at face value and provided

enabling legislation that will be a
framework within which the rec-
ommendations can be estab-
lished.

And parents are the main

focus, with responsibilities as
well as entitlements: (The words
‘parents, guardians, students”
are used interchangeably in most
of the report.) An attempt is
made to balance responsibilities.
For example:
@ Parents have the right to be
informed of a student’s pro-
gress: but, also, the teacher has a
right to a conference with the
parent. ,

ONE:.WELCOME!

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MONDAY: Ter

Kinsmen Club

@ Parents have aright to appeal
decisions regarding the student;
and staff have a right to be con-
sulted.

@ The right to an education is
balanced by the duty of a stu-
dent to participate in the school
programs and to obey the rules.
@ Parents have a right to form
advisory groups: but the respon-
sibility to do so is with the
parents.

@® Parents and students are re-
sponsible for damage. .

@ Proper record keeping isto
be ensured, and access and con-
fidentiality established.

@ Dual entry at the kinder-

garten level, long a parental -

wish, has been introduced.

@ English is the language of in-
struction, but provision must be
made for French language in-
struction as indicated in the
previous Act.

@ Provision is made for other
languages to be used in instruc-
tion.

Every resident of school age
(now up to 16 years instead of

n — coming full circle.

15) of a school district is ‘‘en-
titled to enrol in an educational
program”’’. a

And this is there the dramatic
change appears.

This is where parents really

take over.

Because the mode in which the
education is to be provided is
wide open; parents have com-
plete charge. . 7

There has always been provi-
sion for private schooling and
with Bill 68, the new Indepen-

dent School Act, the conditions.
for these schools are spelled out,

and they, too, vary greatly in the
amount of supervision from out-
side sources. ,

Home Education has now

been added.

The only absolute require-
ment is that a parent ‘... shall
register the child on or before
Sept. 30 in each year’. and

se, shall provide that child with.

an educational program”’.

Have we come full circle? In
pioneer days, in our sparsely set-

tled ‘country, “education of |

necessity had to be provided at
home. As the country grew and
the population increased, the
public school system evolved to
relieve parents of the burden of
educating their children at
home, Now it is a possibility

‘again.

...Next week: trustees, and
conflict of interest.

if you wish fo announce

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the birth of YOUR baby, please fill out the form
available in the maternity ward at Mills Memorial
Hospital, We will pick up your farms every week.

RIDLER — Mr. and Mrs. Ron Ridler are pleased
to announce the birth of their son Ryan Richard on |
November 30, 1989 weighing 8. Ibs. 44% oz..A
brother for Travis and Sarah. | |

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