A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 9, 2003.

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

The Mail Bag Four-day week a good thing

Dear Sir: I cannot see what the problem is here with a four-day

week. It appears that some Terracites have to be dragged |

kicking and screaming into something new.

This four-day school week hasn't even started yet, and already, people have condemned it. Why not try it, for a year or two; give it a chance, Don’t just-bash some- thing until you've actually tried it.

The money saved. will! take pressure off.of the school ..

boards, and maybe then some extra curricular activities that have been cancelled can be bronght back. Underpaid teachers will have more time to prepare lessons, grade exams, and do more of what they do,

Remember, teachers have degrees, and are teaching because they want to. Take a teacher, and put him or her into the private sector. With their degree, and a back- ground of keeping 25-30 kids’ attention six hours a day, they will be able to pull down at least another $20- 30,000 a year. Some teachers have as much education as lawyers, and they are routinely getting the short end of the slick, They need to be able to have a surplus bud- get to work with, No school board has a surplus budget yel, so changes need to be made,

Another concern should be the students grumbling about how they may have to cut back on some of free time in order to do more homework, longer days at

“The money school, etc. Welcome to saved will take the real world. When you

pressure off of the 0 to university or out into schoo! boards, and the work force, do you

think that your professor ts maybe then some going to care that he holds

extra curricular ac- his classes at night, so you tivities that have cannot go to a party? Do been cancelled can you think your boss is

be brought back.” going to care that you have ; to work overtime because

of whatever reason, so you cannot watch the hockey game, or hang out down at the coffee hut? It's time to get real here. Life is full of sacrifice. You cannot get everything you want, whenever you want it.

In case anyone hasn't noticed, B.C. isn’t its usual pristine self, and we need to change. In order to change, we need to work at doing things differently. This is going to happen once all of us realize that change is a good thing, and that the sooner we stop whining about a situa- tion that we haven't experienced, we can change the si- tuation we are experiencing. If you want to try and do a better job than the officials you elected, then put your nomination papers in when the time comes,

The old saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, but the school beards are broke, they need to be fixed.

Rob Barwise, Prince George, B.C.

Keeping

Saddam

means more deaths

Dear Sir:

There were several flaws in the thinking of the anti-Iraq war move- ment’s propaganda,

‘The alternative to a war would have been a continuation of containment with so many nations continuing sanc- tions and U.N. inspections against Sad- dam’s Iraq in order to keep a lid on his terrorism. But containment was killing at least 36,000 people each year, mostly children under the age of 5. Since the Gulf War when containment was started there have been over

- 360,000 deaths in Iraq due to sanctions

and the general hardship created be- cause of Saddam’s refusal to leave, So any delay in the war would have

seen more children dying each day due to containment. By the way, the col- lateral damage during the first Gulf War was 26,000 people.

I would ask readers to add up the collateral damage during this war and then compare it to the certain 36,000 people each year who would have died over the next 5 to 10 years because of the peace movement’s advocacy of containment as the alternative to war.

And let’s not forget that Saudi Ara- bia dropped its price of crude oil in the first week of the current war because they-realized they suddenly had com- petition from :Iraq now that the con- tainment era is over.

Brian Gregg, Terrace, B.C.

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