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September 1, 1990 Castlegar News A3

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New principal predicts chan

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

The new principal of Stanley Hum-
phries secondary school says the

Senior secondary school, id itis
normal for a school to be given
“‘guidance”’ in the form of recom-
mendations before receiving ‘full ac-

school will URdETgZO"s0
the next few years but they won’ n't rs
because he sees problems in the high
school.

The look and makeup of classes
will have to change to conform to the
new curriculums the Ministry of
Education is preparing, David Hogg
said.

But Hogg said Stanley Humphries
is a good school and he’s happy to be
a member of the staff.

“I’m not coming into the school
with any thoughts that the school is
broken and needs to be fixed,’ he
said, referring to the school’s lack of
full accreditation following review by
the Education Ministry.

Hogg, who arrives at Stanley

Humphries after three years in the ©

principal’s~ seat at Salmo Junior-

The ion process
has changed and schools aré how
given accreditation for six years rather
than one to six years as was formerly
the practice. As a consequence, many
schools do not get full accreditation
right away, he said.

Hogg predicts Stanley Humphries
will be fully accredited by November
and the staff will then move on to
tackle the unknowns of the planned
new curriculums.

A new primary program, replacing
kindergarten to Grade 3, is being put
in place in Castlegar this fall and draft
copies of the intermediate program
(Grade 4-10) and the graduate
program (Grades 11 and 12) are out.
Educators have until December to
make comments and suggestions on
the draft documents.

One of the biggest changes expected
in the new senior-level curriculums
will be an integration pt teens, such
as combining E: social
studies into a po ag course,

Students may study a num| of.
a

topics or cour

language, around a t!

makeup of the West Kootenay region,
and receive credit for units of study
rather than completed courses as in
now the case, he said.

However, Hogg noted some senior-
level courses, such as math or science
classes, will not be integrated because
of the special nature of the classes.

But many other areas, from the set-
up of the school timetable to the age
levels of students in each class, are up
for debate, he said.

“*The lid has been taken off the can
in terms of structure.”’

All the possibilities are causing ap-
prehension for his staff, Hogg said.

DAVID HOGG
+ +» SHSS a good school

“They're excited about the changes
but anxious as to what form the
changes will take, We have a

~ blueprint but we don’t know where

the plugs are and where the windows
will be."

Hogg praised the students he has

so far but said they may not be

dy for the world as it is after going

‘ough the current school system,

new curriculums are designed to

* feach students how to find what they

want to know rather than cram infor-
mation into their heads, he said.

The ability to successfully seek in-
formation is vital in the technology-
based world students are going into,
he said.

But the new curriculum may have
some drawbacks, Hogg said.

**I suspect we may be looking at a
generation of poor trivia pursuit
players,’’ he said jokingly.

Hogg, who taught math and science
for nine years in Princeton and two

ge for SHSS

years in Surrey, said his new job
marks the first time he will be in an
entirely administrative role. He said
he always taught during his stints as
principal at Cassiar secondary in
Cassiar, B.C., and at Salmo.

“I'm definitely going to miss
(teaching),”” he said, But Hogg said
he plans to spend time in the
classroom anyway, observing the
teaching practices of his staff and the
learning practices of the students.

Hogg will have some problems of
his own to cope with this winter when
he has to drive back and forth from
his home in Nelson. But he and his
wife, Marlene, who is @ nurse in
Nelson, and their three children chose
to remain in the Queen City where
they lived while he worked in Salmo.

Hogg said commuting won't
necessarily be that bad.

“It gives me half an hour to think
about my day. and half an hour to
play it back."”

Steam
killing
railway
weeds

SOUTH SLOCAN™(CP) —
Residents and environmentalists are
delighted that CP Rail is steaming
down the tracks.

Steaming weeds, that is, instead of
poisoning them with herbicides.

CP Rail sent the prototype of its
steam machine to the Slocan Valley
this week to try it out on handy
species, such as alder, which clog the
tracks.

“*We're absolutely thrilled,”’ says
South Slocan resident Wayne Pep-
pard.

Two summers ago Peppard and the
Citizens Against Spike occupied the
track to stop the railway spraying the
herbicide on the rail line.

As a result, the cancelled

its spray program for the area.

The protests forced the company to
“‘look at their vegetation management
very carefully,”’ said company official
Jane Mudry in Vancouver.

“Definitely the Citizens Against
Spike played a major part in forcing
us to look for alternatives.””

Now CP Rail has stopped using
Spike throughout Canada and has
imposed a moratorium for the second
year on the use of herbicides in British
Columbia.

Mudry said the steam machine
“looks really promising.””

The steam machine, which cost
more than $250,000 to develop, was
used in Greater Vancouver rail yards
this summer.

It will be taken to Vancouver Island
in two weeks and used there until Oc-
tober.

Saturday
publication
to continue

News will con-
tinue toxpublish its weekend
edition on Saturday afternoon
“‘for the foreseeable future,’’
publisher Burt Campbell said this
week.

Campbell said resumption of
the Sunday publication ‘‘will be
reviewed periodically.”

He said costs associated wit1
the Sunday publication are the
reason for the decision.

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COURT NEWS.

By CasNews Staff

In Castlegar provincial court, Lor-
ne Stuart Leverington pleaded guilty
to possession of a narcotic and was
given a conditional discharge.

. . .

Robert John Johnson pleaded
guilty to failing to comply with a
probation order and was ordered to

tenced to 75 days in jail.
. 8 8

Richard Michael Rose pleaded
guilty to driving while impaired and
was fined $900. He is also prohibited
from driving for 12 months.

. 8 8

Deanna Adeline Boel was fined

$400 for driving without due care and

serve three months pi
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Marvin John Polonicoff pleaded

guilty to driving while impaired and

was fined $1,000 or, in default, sen-

She is also p: from
driving for six months.
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Harold Elasoff was sentenced to
one day in jail for possession of a nar-

cotic for the purposes of trafficking.
He was also fined $700 and a victim
surcharge of $50.
* 2
Jessica Jane Michalofsky pleaded
guilty to possession of a narcotic and
was given a conditional discharge and
three months probation. She must
also perform 20 hours of community
service.
. *# 6
Robert John MacKay was fined
$750 for causing a disturbance in a
public place by fighting. He must also
serve six months probation.

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said.

Damage estimated at $60,000
Damage to the Red Laser T-shirt shop and an adjacent bakery at
the Castleaird Plaza during a fire last weekend has been estimated at
between $60,000 and $65,000, Castlegar fire chief Bob Mann said.
The estimate includes the cost of cleaning the interiors of both
businesses, which were damaged by smoke and heat, and repairing any
of the T-shirt shop’s equipment that may have been damaged, Mann

The small shop filled with smoke Sunday after a box of T-shirts left
beside a gas furnace caught fire and smoldered before being spotted.

Reform party sets local date

The Kootenay Wi

Reform Party of Canada has set nh 6 as the date to select local

of the

to attend a

meeting in
Delegates at the Vancouver meeting, slated for Sept. 15, will select

ide election of a

a Reform party

for a possible pi

senator to represent B.C. in the Canadian Senate.
The local meeting to choose delegates will be held at the Castlegar

Community Complex starting at 7:30 p.m.

LOTTERIES

The $1,000,000 winning number in
Friday’s Provincial lottery draw is
4007028. There are also subsidiary
prizes.

The winning numbers drawn Thur-
sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 5,
8, 14, 18, 23, 27, 40 and 55.

The winning numbers in Wed-
nesday’s Lotto 649 draw were 1, 10,
16, 25, 43 and 48. The bonus number
was 37.

The jackpot of $4,402,339.60 goes
to the holder of a single ticket bought
in British Columbia. Therefore, the
estimate for the next draw will be
$2,000,000.

The second prize pool, awarded to
those matching five regular numbers
and the bonus number, had eight
winners of $100,097.70.

The third-prize pool, awarded to
those matching five regular numbers,
had 254 winners of $2,410.80.

The fourth-prize pool, awarded to
those matching four regular numbers,
had 15,265 winners of $77,10,

In addition, there were 289,806
prizes of $10 awarded to those mat-
ching three regular numbers.

There was a total of 305,334 prizes
worth $9,890,455.90.

The four Extra winning numbers
for British Columbia on Wednesday
were 61, 81, 82 and 96.

A match on al] four numbers win
$500,000. Three numbers wins
$1,000. Two numbers wins $10. One
number wins $1.

The winning numbers drawn Wed-
nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were
4,5, 11, 13, 33, 35, 36 and 53.

In the event of a discrepancy bet-
ween these numbers and the official
winning numbers list, the latter shall
prevail.

Students

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the school district will receive only
half the funding for them until they
have been in school for 10 months,
Wayling said.

“That is significant — there’s a lot
of dollars there,’’ Wayling said.

He said he calculated the possible
funding loss to the d’strict at about
$36,000 if the 30 children born in
November and December are per-
mitted to begin classes in the fall.

The provincial government has
changed the funding system and now
provides each district with a set
amount of money for each pupil
enrolled in the district.

The board made its decision
following discussion of a letter from a
Castlegar parent with a child in the
November-December gap

Colleen Lakevold said ‘‘holding
back”’ some children is unfair while
children born early in the year can
now start school the fall before their
birthdays. Under the old school
system, those children had to wait un-
til the following September to begin
school.

“I fail to see what purpose there is
behind holding back some children

this year.

The philosophy behind the “new
program is that children should
progress at their own rates, rather
than on the basis of age. by

If Lakevold’s daughter-dges well,
she may complete the first four years
of school in 3% years, Wayling said.

Farrell said the ‘‘conveyor belt
philosophy’’ of school progression
many people.are used to will be hard
to overcome.

“‘That’s going to be our greatest
challenge,’’ he said.

Wayling said allowing one child
born in the November-December
bracket to attend school in the fall
would set a precedent.

He said some districts plan to allow
those children to begin school in Sep-
tember but they are doing so for
various reasons.

For instance, North Vancouver is
expecting an influx of first-year
students this school year, Wayling
said. The North Vancouver board
wants to accommodate as many of
those students as possible this fall
rather: than waiting for the second
wave in January to hire more teachers
and find some classroom space.

The late French immersion program is set to go at
Kinnaird Junior secondary school with about 30
students in the lead class, superintendent of schools
Terry Wayling said. And Tarrys elementary will be the
first school in the district to offer both French. and
Russian second-language classes this year.

In conjunction with the new primary program,
the dual-entry system for first-year students will be
implemented with about 115 students ready to enter
school in September, Wayling said. About 71 students
are slated to start primary school in January, he said.

The Open Roads program for students age 13 to
16 who have problems with the regular school system
has been disbanded and those students will begin

New programs set to go

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

Although the focus this fall in the Castlegar
school district is on the new primary program, other
changes have taken place over the summer.

school this fall at Kinnaird Junior and Stanley Hum-
phries secondary school, he said.

A teacher has been hired to coordinate what is
now being called a rehabil
work with teachers and students throughout the year,

Wayling said.

oO

The Open Roads program, which was housed at

tion program and he will

district this year.

it was determined to be a form of segregation for
students who supposedly were being prepared to re-
enter the regular school system, Wayling said.

Two Castlegar teachers have been asked to spend
the year working with the fledgling teacher education
program sponsored by the six local school districts and
run by the University of B.C., partially through
Selkirk College, he said.

Between 30 and 35 students will fill the first
sessions this fall seeking teaching certificates, he said.

There will be 15 new teachers working in the

y school, was because

Teachers

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Teachers will rely more’on instincts in determining
whether a child has a problem in a certain area or is ready
to move on to greater challenges, Andrews said.

And parents will be encouraged to become more in-

The primary teachers not only have a new program but

also two new curriculums — language, and human growth
and development — to implement this year.
That’s where Andrews comes in. She said part of her

- Smith defends actions

over Reid prosecution

VANCOUVER (CP) — Former at-
torney general Bud Smith told an off-
icial inquiry Thursday he had no
obligation to tell NDP justice critic
Moe Sihota why former tourism
minister Bill Reid wasn’t prosecuted.

Smith was responding to a
suggestion from Sihota’s lawyer,
Terry La Liberte, that the g

prosecute Reid,
decision,

He rejected an NDP accusation the
government ‘‘swept the matter under
the carpet.’’

“Clearly the language is
provocative and I suspect it speaks

itical considerations than

nor in the final

could have avoided NDP accusations
of coverup had he kept the justice
critic advised.

La Liberte suggested Smith could
have advised Sihota in strict con-
fidence the basis for the Crown’s
decision not to prosecute Reid for
breach of public trust in respect to his
handling of lottery funds.

For me to get into the scene if
that political way would not have
* been appropriate,”’ Smith replied.

He said Sihota, despite his party
designation as justice critic, is just
another MLA and he is ‘‘not clothed
with the authority’’ to receive such in-
formation. *

“I will not project. political con-
siderations into the process,’’ Smith
added.

“*It would set a precedent corrosive,
if not corrupting, to the criminal
justice system.’’

Ombudsman Stephen Owen is
reviewing the decision not to
Prosecute Reid for breach of trust
over his handling of a lottery fund
grant.

Questioned earlier by his own
lawyer, Tom Braidwood, Smith said
he did not play any role in the process
by which the Crown decided not to

He said he did not call a news con-
ference to respond because “‘it is
unacceptable to have duelling press
conferences to administer the criminal
justice system."”

Braidwood reminded Smith that
when the Crown decided not to
prosecute Reid, Sihota went to a
justice of the peace and laid a private
information.

The former attorney general agreed
the usual practice with respect to
private informations is for the Crown
either to take over the matter and
conduct the prosecution, or stay the
matter.

He agreed the Crown neither stayed
Sihota’s private information nor did
it: take over conduct of . the
prosecution.

He strongly denied NDP
suggestions Sihota was obliged to
abandon his private prosecution
because the government put road-
blocks in his way when he sought
evidence retained by the Crown.

Smith said the ministry was reluc-
tant to voluntarily release the
material, including the RCMP file,
because it feared creating a precedent
for future private prosecutions, such
as in respect to abortion.

He said deputy attorney general
Ted Hughes suggested Sihota could
obtain the material by way of a sub-
poena. He said the deputy attorney
general cooperated to the extent of
offering to assign a senior Crown
counsel to support Sihota’s ap-
plication for the subpoena.

There was a brief reference during
Smith's testimony to tape recordings
of phone calls, containing disparaging
remarks about the lawyer retained to
handle the private prosecution, bet-
ween Smith and assistant deputy at-
torney general Bill Stewart.

Smith agreed that when Sihota first
introduced the tape recordings in the
legislature, he (Smith) decided the
conversations did not warrant his
resignation as attorney general.

He said a few hours later, when he
learned Sihota had suggested his part

the tape-recorded phone conver-

[ations might have constituted an at-
tempt to obstruct jy
the private prosect
his resignation.

A senior RCM ficer, with
university degrees in law and business
administration, was highly critical
Thursday of the procedure by which
the Crown decided not to prosecute
Reid.

Don Sorochan, co-counsel to the
commission, reminded MacAulay
that veteran lawyer John Hall
believed the charge should not be laid.

“I would characterize (Hall's)
opinion as being disappointingly
shallow for such an eminent prac-
titioner,’’ MacAulay said.

itice in respect to
ion, he tendered

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NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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Hussein in a war crimes trial.

the Los Angeles Times.

anniversary Friday.

U.S. compiles list on Iraq
LOS ANGELES — U.S. offiicials are compiling a list of alleged
violations of international law to use against Iraqui president Saddam

The Bush administration could cite the alleged violations to justify
any military action against Iraq, said administration sources quoted by

The administration also might make the capture of Saddam and his
key advisers for trial one of the objectives of the U.S. buildup in the
Persian Gulf, officials told the Times.

“Some (legal) action has to be taken; both because we have a right
to bring him to justice and to deter him from further violations,”’
an administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity

In the short term, administration officials said the preparation of
charges is intended to deter Saddam from taking further action against
thousands of civilian hostages in Iraq and Kuwait

Cracks showing in Solidarity
GDANSK, Poland — Solidarity, the movement that drove

Poland’s communist from power and lit the torch of revolution in

Eastern Europe, struggled to mask divi

said

ns as it marked its 10th

government

ip and mounting fr
to cloud the tri

with the Solidarity

policies.

added.

base. .

climate change,”’ the sources said.

than 1,000 atmospheric experts.

degrees C per decade,

1980, when striking workers at a Gdansk shipyard won the right to form
the communist world’s first free trade union.

Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, returning to the
shipyard where he joined the strikers a decade ago, was grilled Thursday
by workers fast losing patience with his government’s harsh austerity

.
Agreement reported on warming
STOCKHOLM — Experts from 75 countries have reached an

agreement on the facts of global warming that will form the basis of
future international treaties, a conference source said
A 36-page report recording the agreement will be issued shortly, he

“The conference kas been a success. It Kas achieved a scientific
. for negotiating international agreements on how to cope with

Sweden hosted the four-day United Nations con:. rence in the
central town of Sundsvall, where experts discussed research by more

The aim of the meeting is to lay the groundwork for a treaty on
global warming to be adopted a’ a UN conference on environment and
development in Brazil in June 1992.

Scientists have agreed in a draft report that the burning of fossil
fuels releases ‘‘greenhouse’’ gases, particularly carbon dioxide, that trap
heat near the Earth’s surface and raise temperatures.

There would be no fundamental changes to thé draft report
presented by a panel created by the United Nations Environment
Program and the World Meteorological Organization, the source said.

The draft report predicted temperatures would rise by about 0.3

memory of Aug. 31,

of

gases.

Germanys pledge to eut troops
VIENNA — The two Germanys pledged to cut troop strengths of a
united Germany to about half their current size.
The commitment, made in a rare open plenary session of East-West

PM appoints 5 senators

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney has taken a step
toward breaking the legislative logjam
in the Senate by naming five new
senators to the appointed upper
house.

“I have an important legislative
program to get through,’’ Mulroney
said, ‘‘so I’ve looked for people of
accomplishment across the country
who will support the government in
its initiative of getting its legislative
Program through the upper cham-
ber."*

Called to the Senate were:

Pat Carney of Vancouver, a for-
mer federal energy minister;

* Mario Beaulieu, a Montreal
businessman who headed the Conser-

vatives’ Quebec campaign during the
1988 election;

© Nancy Teed, a former Tory New
Brunswick cabinet minister;

*° Gerald Comeau, a former Con-
servative MP from Nova Scotia;

© Consiglio Di Nino of Toronto,
Conservative party member and
sometime fund-raiser, president of
Cabot Trust Co. and president of the
Italian Canadian Benevolent Corp.

There are still 10 vacancies in the
Senate.

The appointments narrow: the
Liberal lead in the red chamber, a
thorn in the government’s side since
the Conservatives came to power in
1984. The Liberal-dominated Senate
is blocking several key government

bills, including the one authorizing
the goods and services tax and
another changing unemployment in-
surance

That bill was passed by the Com-
mons last November -but senators
have repeatedly refused to OK it
without amendments.

By adding five Conservatives to the
104-seat Senate, Mulroney creates
new standings, as follows: $2
Liberals, 36 Tories, one Reform, four
Independent and one Liberal
Independent

Government House Leader Harvie
Andre has publicly pleaded with
Mulroney to flood the upper house
with Conservatives. Just hours before
Thursday's appointments, Finance

Minister Michael Wilson told ‘repor.
ters he hoped people who shared the
government's views would soon
change the climate in the Senate

Mulroney told reporters Wed
nesday he would fill all the Senate
vacancies this fall.

Challenged “by reporters on the
Conservative connections of all the
new senators, Mulroney replied
“‘None of the previous four or five
did (have Tory connections), and if
these five do, what’s wrong with
that?"

Senators, who do not have to retire
until age 75, earn the same base salary
as MPs — $62,000 bolstered by a
nearly $10,000 tax-free allowance

Senator Carney says she won't run

VANCOUVER (CP) — If British
Columbia holds an election for a
Senate seat, Pat Carney says it won't
be for hers.

“It’s filled,”” she said. *‘I just don’t
see the validity that my name should
be put forward on a ballot when
they’re not suggesting that the other
(five B.C. Liberal) senators’ names be
put on the ballot.””

Carney was named British Colum-
bia’s newest senator Thursday by
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, one
of five Senate appointments made

In Victoria, Premier Bill Vander
Zalm said he’s disappointed that
Mulroney went ahead with the ap-
pointment.

Vander Zalm said the Senate elec-
tion will still go ahead as planned
when a general election is called

NDP Leader Mike Harcourt said
the fight to block the GST and speed
Senate reform may have been set back
by Carney’s appointment.

“It’s clear Mulroney’s deter-
mination to ram the GST through the

Senate has robbed British Colum-
bians of any chance to democratically
elect a B.C. senator to help block this
tax grab."”

Carney, first elected to the Com-
mons as a Progressive Conservative in
1980 in the riding of Vancouver Cen-
tre, will be invited to run as a can-
didate, said the premier

Although he said he has the highest
regard for Carney, Vander Zalm said
her appointment conflicts with the
idea of Senate reform.

The premier said it makes him
question the meaning of the recent
debate on the issue during talks to
save the Meech Lake constitutional
accord.

Under new legislation in British
Columbia, candidates have to find 25
nominees in each of the province's 75
ridings before they are eligible to ran
as a senator

Carney, who accepted Mulroney's
Senator offer in a phone call Wed-
nesday night, flatly dismissed

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“The primer minister is operating
entirely within his rights,’’ said Car-
ney.

“Canadians rejected the Meech
Lake accord and therefore rejected
the concept of changing the nature of
Senate appointments at this time."*

Carney said she has grassroots sup-
port from B.C. residents.

On the proposed goods and services
tax, however, she said she ‘was a
member of the cabinet that initiated

the GST. I would be a hypocrite if 1
said 1 won't support it. Canadians
really have given themselves a stan
dard and a style of service in this
country that we have to pay for.””

Since retiring from politics prior to
the 1988 federal election, Carney ha
worked as an economic consultant it
Vancouver

She said rheumatoid arthritis
restricts what she can do, but perfor
ming the duties of a senator will not
be as physically draining as being an
MP

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role will be to help organize sessions on the new materials
for Castlegar teachers and act as a liaison between local
teachers and the Ministry of Education.

talks on reducing conventional forces in Europe, formalized an
agreement hammered out by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in July.

West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said his
government ‘commits itself to reduce the personnel strengths of the
armed forces of the united Germany to 370,000 within three to four
years.”

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volved with their children’s education by participating in
field trips or exchanging information with teachers, she
said.

And no one yet knows what the
legal implications are of having
children in school who are not
recognized as students, Wayling said.

The ministry's legal experts indicate
any child attending school who is hurt
6n school property will be covered by

and starting others earlier. In a sense,
are we not discriminating against a
certain group of kids born in these
two months out of the year?’’ she
wrote.

Lach Farrell, assistant superinten-
dent of schools, pointed out the im-

LABOR DAY, SEPT. 3

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As well, the ministry has sponsored a recently com- B
pleted project on the primary program called Taking the C h
Pulse. An idea book and videos will give teachers some 3 ourse runc
help with the new program and a sense of what their
classrooms will look like in the near future, Andrews said.

All the changes add up to meeting the five goals of

the new and social in-

physical esthetic

and artistic development and development of social
responsibility.

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plication in Lakevold’s letter that her
daughter will always start a new class
in January rather than at the same
time as many of her peers is a miscon-
ception that some people have about
the new primary program and the
dual-entry system being implemented

the school district's liability policy, lie
said.

But they are uncertain on other
issues such as whether or not a teacher
should request testing of a student
who appears to have a problem with
hearing or seeing, he said.

Although there will be an emphasis on intellectual
development, all five areas are considered equal within
the program and all areas are fecggnized as integral to one

another, Andrews said.

The changes also mean parents, and especially
teachers, will need some help sorting it all out, she said.

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classrooms.””

drews said.

“*The real problem is giving people time to internalize
the changes and then respond in a practical way in their

Information sessions for the community and parents
to help explain the new system will likely be held, An-

German Premier Lothar de Maziere.

De Maziere said his government was ‘‘in full agreement" with
Genscher. He said the armed forces of a united Germany would be
slightly more than half of the current total of more than 600,000. He
said the number of tanks and other weapons systems would also be
reduced by about 50 per cent.

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