12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 5, 2000

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Students back at |

She said there’s never

been a situation when the
school district has had to add
on more school days to the
end of the year, |~

But she said the district
did worry about some Skee-
na Junior pupils who lost
two weeks in September
when the school had to redo .
course timetables, causing
some Students to begin sub-
jects anew,.complete with
different teachers’ ‘and class:
mates: :

Timetables had to be re-
jigged. bécause of an unex-
pected enrolment of 40 addi-
tional students.

Beedle said she expects it
will be challenging for
teachers to cover al! the core
course material, but it can
be done.

“I have faith in the teach-
ing slaff that they are pro-
fessionals and they. will be
able to cover the required
material,” Beedle said.

“It may be that additional
{elective] information or ac-
tivities won't get done.”.

Beedle added Caledonia
Senior Secondary students,
who follow. the semester
system, were affected most
by the strike since every
school day lost in the se-
mester system is equal to

OUT OF SCHOOL: Eric and Richard Anderson walk
the picket line at Skeena Junior Secondary in support
of their mother Kory Peacock, a striking school support

two regular days of school- worker,
ing.

“It’s more critical for nice, she’s concerned about
them,” she said. “I would the work she missed.

expect there will be a push
to do the work that wasn’t
completed.”

Grade 12 Caledonia stud-
ent Brie’ Birdsell said
although the extra time
away from school has been

“You know when we get
back to school we’re going
to have an overload,” she
said, “We're going to have
to catch up because provin-
cial exam dates don’t
change.”

To keep up with schcol-
work, she did the required
reading for her English term
paper and completed the ex-
tra work her geography
teacher gave the class.

“This isn’t just a
holiday,” Birdsell added.
“T'm trying to do stuff.”

Eye fee not yet final

OPTOMETRISTS SAY a $10 user fee the
provincial government wants to charge for
visits to.them is wrong.

“At a time when we teed to keep
health costs down, prevention should be a
cornerstone of the povernment’s
planning,” said B.C. Association of Opto-
metrists president Paul Geneau.

_ He’s worried that the fee will discour-
age people form having their eyes
checked.

Bul health ministry official spokesman
Dave Clements says there’s been no final

fee decision. And if there is a fee, it
won’t apply to people under 16 or over 64
or to people on income assistance or
medical premium assistance,

Clements noted that eye exam costs
have risen from 529.9 million in 1994 to
$37.5 million in 1999, He said some of
that increase is due to an aging popula-

‘tion,

And Clements did add that optometry
is the last of the what are called supple-
mentary services to not have a fee atta-
ched to them.

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