EET TE TUTTE ATT TAL (OWI ANTET AN THB TT LE Mii te LT Lh mn 702 =IBEL ‘GIVE LABOR A VOICE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1957 Continued from page 1 RANKIN ee what useful role 7 an oppo- > NPA no matter 4 t ypposition m ay there is a our rms people, both in school and universities, and > of the main factors in > school, h into into iinances can t to the muni- to support the main There must be in- rants from the pro- vinci and from if we p our ep pace yhich need f ward look- is, I think attention » be paid to the use Canadian textbooks ls rather than the fying of American text- the basis that they deal of hey are ade- : system we have developed here ish Columbia. school problem that will Continued JONES will never 1 of cheap they take it over and ate it as a publicly owned utility. operé Upetic > Jones says that if elect- ed on December 11 she will i ediat initiate action in ity council to bring down elec- ic rates in Vancouver, which ar than they should have to be overcome is the question of more adequate sal- arieS for teaching personnel with a view to raising the stan- dards of teachers generally and attracting a larger num- ee HARRY RANKIN-> ber of adequately trained peo- ple into the profession. “At the present time the av- erage class in British Colum- bia is close to forty students. This has been dénied by cer- tain members of the school board who. give averages which indicate a figure far be- low this number. One has to consider the fact that in most schools, the principals have made a policy of having 25 to 27 students.in Grade. 1, which is an absolute ‘necessity amongst the younger children, This, however, has thrown ad- ditional burden on the teach- ers in Vancouver that most of the classes above Grade 1 have approximately 40 students. “No system of education, no matter how adequate, can cope with this number of students and give them the individual attention they require. No matter how modern our schools and how adequate our teach- ing personnel are, unless we can cut classes to not more than 30, we shall have failed to achieve the necessary sults that we seek. in the municipalities,’ he say> “At the same time we havé underpaid teachers, crowded classrooms and too few schools: “Obviously, provincial and federal governments must bé® compelled to assume a greatel | part of school costs. In fach I am campaigning for the fed eral government to assume the i full cost of education. This would be a far better invest ment in the country’s futuré than squandering millions 0 armaments that are obsolet even before they are in pro duction.” Dorothy Lynas seeks) re-election in N. Van. Mrs. Dorothy Lynas, who was elected by acclamation 0 North Vancouver School Board two years ago, is seeking ™ election this year on the basis of her record. A resident of North Van- couver for 17 years, Mrs. Lyn- as has also been an active member of the PTA for that whole period, holding many offices in the organization over the years. Mrs. Lynas is president of North Vancouver PTA Coun- cil and is an executive officer in Keith Lynn Ratepayers. During her term on the school board she has fought consistently for senior gov- ernment aid for school fin- ances, and brought in a reso- lution on the subject which was endorsed by the board She also played a leading role in the battle for greater provin- cial financial aid. North Vancouver School Board has seven members, four r DOROTHY LYNAS elected from the city ® three from the district. December 6, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE”