Opinion TheReview Wednesday, September 26,1990 — A7

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Let’s say your child’s school curriculum
consisted of 18 subjects each year. And let’s say
that last year your child’s June report card
indicated that he or she had completely failed six
subjects and managed only a D in five of the
others.

Would you be concemed? Of course you would.
Would you discuss the situation with your
child? Of course you would.

Mulroney and ithe F word

ABILITY TO COMPREHEND - when
assigned a task, did it seem to understand the
instructions given to it by other Canadians? Or
did the instructions disappear down the govern-
ment’s drain of aucomprehension like grain
through a goose?

EFFORT - did the government actually put out
any effort, particularly in those subjects which
received failing marks. Or did it just pretend to do

1 > And if your child indicated to you that sfhe so? Was there a whole bunch of constipated
e didn’t give a tinker’s damn what you thought, that huffing and puffing, but little or no movement?

3 s/he*d do whatever s/he wanted to do and even

E told you to mind your own business, wouldn’t HONESTY - were all the funds entrusted to the
a you, after dealing appropriately with the little | government treated with care and respect and
rs creep, ask the teacher to expound on what many ~_— -were these funds allocated to areas calculated to

parents believe to be a report card’s most
important area - behaviour in school?

Of course you would.

Each June for the past five years The Fraser
Institute, a private, Vancouver-based, economic
and social research organization has, on behalf of
all Canadians, published a report card containing
its assessment of the Mulroney government’s
performance.

In 1989, subjects such as energy policy, current
deficit, future deficit, inflation control, job crea-
tion, trade and agriculture were graded B, EK E E
C A and D.

That’s what we might call the math, English
and social studies part of the report card.

That’s all very fine and good for the card’s core
subject section but what about a personal behavi-
our section?

Parents also need to know how their little ones
are behaving at school.

do most Canadians the most good? Or did the
government forget that the money. belonged to
someone else, act like a drunk in a liquor store,
lap up as much as it could hold and toss the rest in
all directions at once hoping to make lots of
friends?

COOPERATION WITH OTHERS - did the
government go out of its way to work with the
provinces and other members of the class or did it
exhibit a sort of imperial aloofness? When they
played Meech, did it bully its little playmates?

ATTENDANCE - did the government attend all
classes or did it seem to be out to lunch more
often than not?

INTEGRITY - could the teacher depend on the
government to keep its word?

BELIEVABILITY - when the government said
that something was the absolute truth, did the

y Many parents believe this part of their kids’ _ teacher believe it?
ae lives is actually more important than math, social Golly, on second thought, I don’t think we
i studies, trade and inflation. should ask the Fraser Institute or any other
: Perhaps the Institute could adda supplement to | education group to try and assess grades for the
RN next year’s government report card. 1 wonderhow above eight categories.
- it would grade the federal government on, say: It would be just too difficult to come up with A VIONTH END CLEARANCE
DEPENDABILITY - when given a task, did the | answers.
H government complete it on time? On budget? Has I think we as parents will have to make up our OF QUALI l i ROLL ENDS AT
é the government even heard those two difficult own minds. We could deal appropriately with the
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sod.”

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THE NEW FALL SEASON on Seattle-based
public television KCTS 9 will be promoted
through an interview done at Shaw Cable Friday.
Kimberly Taggart and Tom Howe of the station
were in Sidney for the interview on the history of
public television.

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SPIRITED STUDENTS from Sansbury and
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will then travel to Zimbabwe for three weeks next
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