4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Jan. 19, 1967 “ONE MAN’S OPINION By FLB, Poare Castlegar Teachers Treated Scurvilly a It isn’t often thre mantle of iene ty and step down from my pedes- tal auu 1x in the hurley burley of educational strife. But the recent article by the teacher who talks in this news- ‘paper seems to have caused a minor battle in which I find my- self involved. After all we tench. ers must stand together. It is probably true that I disagree with him over many things but one thing should be carefully noted, when he is assailed ‘Im on his side, 1 am not adverse to battles. In fact I rather like them, par- ticularly if crete are the belie. erents. But now I forced to sharpen my ane and dust ae my battle axe and wade the fray. Despite the fact that aa somewhat stiff in the Joints I can still put up a good ‘fight. Besides, 1, Trave a secret ‘weapon, I can say the: ‘things in the nicest way. Do IT have to? Well look at ‘the nonsense talked by th ders of report whi public's to bos school trustees, and. yet we find Mr. Lamont so losing, control of of himself as to acctine the of lying. This is vunforgivable th _ andthe Teachers’ Associatio: should demand an immediate ©/in 1918 have I ever received less apology and a retraction, And the chairman, too, mak- es charges which she can't sub- stantiate when she says she re- sents the fact that faults and failings of. which tea- chers may be capable sabotaged | y, the whole program and kicked the teachers in the teeth, were using the press to beat their own propoganda drums. A person in. her position should eltizen to say, within the bounds of legality, what he thinks, And why does she have to drag the best interest of the children” in, Thoy are not concerned with salary negotiations, The plain fact is that the school board have not demon- I feel that too many people are pouncing on school teachers, I should like to ask Mrs. Willey how she would like me to write a letter outlining my views on how her husband should con- duct himself on his job and sug- gesting he take a lower si because he is doing work for the good of the community. And as for Mr, Roder, it would be niet. Never since I arrived country than $1,200 a year and the that he received 01 $1,000 doesn’t indicate a ie was a first-class teacher and ail his im- aginative flights of fancy have no bearing on the article in ques- on, tk ee "ANDERSON INSURANCE AGENCIES For All Your INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE NEEDS Phone 365-7944 X started out quite it inten pte article a delicate satire but as havent, on it ras Bor borne upon me chers have been treated and my anger grew. ane teachers entertained the view that the schools would benefit if there were better re- lations with the public and to this end ed a forum at which the guest speaker was the editor of the Trail Times. To their consternation this egregi- ous egoist, this modern piarauis de Sade, by a recital of all know that it is the right of every | Talks t Things are idly that today's fant ‘Castlegar tea-| has ni je} come that of increasing the ef- ficlency with which students ed- gra Still, ap the notion that knowledge rings understandin the ‘teacher: sponsored the: ‘column A ‘Teacher in the hope that it would bring better eu ublic relations, only to find that it raised up an opposition from people who canuot read and understand. Its purpose was defeated by sheer stupidity. I too wont better relations between the public and teachers “land one way to help is to stop parrotting the cries about tea- ht chers salaries, Robert “Burns MeMicking was the man who brought the first public telephone service 1) British Columbia’ making Vic: torla the third city’ in Canada to enjoy th the . discove: but he was born in Queenston, Ont., where his father also was born, une young MeMicking was barely 18 when he joined the Overtandern the pioneers who pushed their way overland: to the west, coast’ in-1862, seeking Cariboo’ gold. They. ‘travelled with saddle horses, mules, oxen and afoot — and eventually theyral gencented. the waterways raft enduring hard- ships Of ‘i 8 srimmest nature. This week's column has been’ The Emphasis 1 Has Changed. a Much has been said of thi explosion of knowledge, how both the amount and the nature of mankind's store of informa- A TEACHER TALKS a Te ucate themselves, The subject-centered school is no longer adequate, The em- phasis today ison developing each child as an individual. No longer are-schools merely talk- ing about developing each child to the maximum of his potential; they are now starting to d do about it: lon is a changing so. rap- Hs tomer: row’s fact, Few peop! shenroter Duncan Hi $row das : ‘Lib. Pkg. Bf ic. sie -. Notes es Pkg. 49 CHOICE ‘RED LABEL BEEF RUMP ROAST Ibs 796 » SIRLOIN TIP ROAST Ib. WBC) | ROUND STEAK Roast Ib. . : \ GROCERIES | MEATS We reserve the right to limit. quantities